Overall rank by patents
#8,788
of 50,000 tracked assignees
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).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Echelon ranks #8,788 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 19 technology areas.
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
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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
ART Medical · near
39 score
Echelon · this assignee
39 score
Friedrich Miescher I… · near
39 score
Parion Sciences · near
39 score
Suspa · near
39 score
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Echelon Corporation stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,788 of 50,000; Innovation Score 39.4/100 sits in the top 38% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Dupont Industrial Biosciences USA, Llc (±0 grants).
Echelon Corporation has been granted 36 US utility patents between 2015 and 2022, placing Echelon Corporation at #8,788 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 19 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 18.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in H04L (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION). As a US Corporation, Echelon Corporation is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Echelon sits between Dupont Industrial Biosciences USA, Llc (36 patents, rank #8,785) and Emissive Energy Corp. (36 patents, rank #8,793) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 39.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.
Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 4 grants, compared with 32 in the 2015–2019 window, a -87% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.
Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Echelon Corporation's 18.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 19 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
DuPont Industrial Biosciences USA, LLC
36 patents
Dynacraft BSC, Inc.
36 patents
E2INTERACTIVE, INC.
36 patents
ENCELL TECHNOLOGY, INC.
36 patents
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
36 patents
Eligo Bioscience
36 patents
Embecta Corp.
36 patents
Emissive Energy Corp.
36 patents
Echelon Corporation
36 patents
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.
By rank, the assignees closest to #8,789 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Echelon's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Echelon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).
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 50,000 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| 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% |
Top 15 of 19 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#8,788
of 50,000 tracked assignees
39.4 out of 100
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