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Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eaton ranks #39,938 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 4 technology areas.

#39,938
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
13th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.8/100)
16.7
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39938 · Foreign Corporation #39,938 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
  • LOWER-Q #39,938/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH E3tec Services
  • CPC-NARROW H01H · 4 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 23.8/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: E3tec Services, LLC (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Eaton’s 23.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Eaton

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Eaton's Innovation Score is 23.8/100 (13th percentile of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Eaton?

Each dot is one of Eaton’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Eaton’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Eaton vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 5.96.06.066.06.06.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent E3tec Services, LLC - 6, 20.5E3tec ServicesEast Hampton Shucker Company, Inc. - 6, 8.67East Hampton Shuc…Easy Healthcare Corporation - 6, 12Easy HealthcareEasydial Inc. - 6, 5.33EasydialEB-invent GmbH - 6, 8.5Eb-inventEBAMed SA - 6, 16.67EbamedEbara Environmental Plant Co., Ltd. - 6, 6.5Ebara Environment…Ebara Refrigeration Equipment & Systems Co., Ltd. - 6, 16.83Ebara Refrigerati…Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH - 6, 16.67Eaton Industries…
Eaton vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Eaton's grants concentrate

Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Eaton sits between E3tec Services, LLC and Ebara Refrigeration Equipment & Systems Co., Ltd..

Who files at Eaton's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Eaton holds 6 patents at rank #39,931, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Eaton

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,931 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01H (Electric Switches)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Eaton's primary technology class.

Eaton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

24 13th percentile higher than 13% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.533.5 201520172018 1
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 3 50.0%
2017 2 33.3%
2018 1 16.7%

Which technologies does Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH patent most?

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH's lead technology class is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01H
  • Ranked #39,938 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Eaton Industries (AUSTRIA) GMBH against E3tec Services, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 23.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

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Data sources used on this page
  • USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
  • Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
  • USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.