Where does Echelon Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Echelon Corporation ranks #8,788 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 Echelon Corporation hold?

Echelon Corporation holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Echelon Corporation's Innovation Score?

Echelon Corporation has an Innovation Score of 39.4 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Echelon Corporation focus on?

Echelon Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 15 patents, ranking #1,732 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Echelon Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Echelon Corporation's recent grant velocity is -87% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Echelon Corporation's patents?

Echelon Corporation's patents average 18.3 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 Echelon Corporation 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 US Corporation

Echelon Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Echelon ranks #8,788 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,788
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.4/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8788 · US Corporation #8,788 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,788/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DuPont Industrial…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA, 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 Echelon’s 39.4 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 12.5 pts (32%) Velocity 0.6 pts (2%) Breadth 15.4 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ART Medical · near

39
Echelon · this assignee

39
Friedrich Miescher… · near

39
Parion Sciences · near

39
Suspa · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Echelon's Innovation Score is 39.4/100 (top 38% 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 Echelon?

Each dot is one of Echelon’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). Echelon’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Echelon's grants concentrate

Echelon Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 41.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Echelon sits between DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA, LLC and Emissive Energy Corp..

Echelon's three-year grant acceleration

Echelon Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Dupont Industrial…

36
Dynacraft BSC

36
E2interactive

36
Encell Technology

36
Ecole Nationale S…

36
Eligo Bioscience

36
Embecta

36
Emissive Energy

36
Echelon ◀

36

What this shows Echelon holds 36 patents at rank #8,789, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Echelon

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,789 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Echelon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Echelon ranks #1,732 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Parion Sciences, Inc. 39 ART Medical Ltd. 39 Friedrich Miescher Institute FOR Biomedical Research 39 Suspa GMBH 39

Echelon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Echelon Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.6%
2016	10	27.8%
2017	6	16.7%
2018	5	13.9%
2019	9	25.0%
2020	2	5.6%
2021	1	2.8%
2022	1	2.8%

Which technologies does Echelon Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H04B - Transmission 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 7

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Echelon Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Echelon Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 41.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #8,788 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Echelon Corporation against DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.4/100 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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