Where does Eaton Intelligent Power Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eaton Intelligent Power Limited ranks #166 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Eaton Intelligent Power Limited hold?

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited holds 2,308 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 215 technology areas.

What is Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's Innovation Score?

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited has an Innovation Score of 65.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Eaton Intelligent Power Limited focus on?

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's top technology area is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices) with 549 patents, ranking #1 of 1,006 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 215 CPC subclasses total.

Is Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's recent grant velocity is +140% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's patents?

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's patents average 16.1 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Eaton Intelligent Power Limited patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,308 granted patents across 215 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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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According to USPTO PatentsView, Eaton ranks #166 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,308 patents across 215 technology areas.

#166
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.8/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +140%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R166 · Foreign Corporation #166 · 2,308 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #166/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Volkswagen Aktienges…
CPC-BROAD H01H · 215 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +140% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (±1 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 65.8 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 26.8 pts (41%) Velocity 4.4 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Facebook · near

66
Maplebear · near

66
Rolls-royce · near

66
Eaton Intelligent… · this assignee

66
Siemens Healthcare · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eaton's Innovation Score is 65.8/100 (top 1% 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.

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 16.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Eaton vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Eaton's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Eaton Intelligent Power Limited received 1,505 grants versus 628 in 2015–2019 (+140% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 426 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 202. Lead class H01H accounts for 23.8% of the portfolio across 215 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (#162) and NTT Docomo, Inc. (#170).

Eaton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Eaton Intelligent Power Limited moved from 1,162 to 769 grants (0.66x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,272. See the growth leaderboard.

Lenovo (Singapore…

2,375
ebay

2,351
Siemens Healthcare

2,329
Nikon

2,316
Eaton Intelligent… ◀

2,308
Volkswagen Aktien…

2,307
State Farm Mutual…

2,305
Alibaba Group Hol…

2,299
NTT Docomo

2,283

What this shows Eaton holds 2,308 patents at rank #166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eaton

By rank, the assignees closest to #166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01H (Electric Switches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eaton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01H (Electric Switches), Eaton ranks #1 of 1,006 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Rolls-royce plc 66 Facebook, Inc. 66 Maplebear Inc. 66 Siemens Healthcare Limited 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Trane International Inc. 16.1 avg Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. 16.1 avg Gojo Industries, Inc. 16.1 avg Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. 16.1 avg

Eaton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Eaton Intelligent Power Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	202	8.8%
2019	426	18.5%
2020	404	17.5%
2021	332	14.4%
2022	278	12.0%
2023	243	10.5%
2024	248	10.7%
2025partial year	175	7.6%

Which technologies does Eaton Intelligent Power Limited patent most?

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 549

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 279

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 198

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 173

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 168

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 157

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 156

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 151

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 148

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 135

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 119

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 119

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 114

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 97

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 94

Top 15 of 215 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eaton Intelligent Power Limited's lead technology class is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices), 23.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01H
Ranked #166 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eaton Intelligent Power Limited against Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.8/100 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

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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