Where does Edge Electrons Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Edge Electrons Limited ranks #22,503 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 Edge Electrons Limited hold?

Edge Electrons Limited holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Edge Electrons Limited's Innovation Score?

Edge Electrons Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.0 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Edge Electrons Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Edge Electrons Limited's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Edge Electrons Limited's patents?

Edge Electrons Limited's patents average 12.0 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 Edge Electrons 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

Edge Electrons Limited

Q: What technology areas does Edge Electrons Limited focus on?

Edge Electrons Limited's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 9 patents, ranking #1,398 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Edge ranks #22,503 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#22,503
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.0/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22503 · Foreign Corporation #22,503 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,503/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH East Japan Railway
CPC-NARROW Y02E · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: East Japan Railway Company (±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 Edge’s 30.0 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 8.9 pts (30%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 10.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
East Japan Railway · near

30
Edge Electrons · this assignee

30
Grip Holdings · near

30
Inventergy · near

30
E2V (UK) · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Edge's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (33rd 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Edge?

Each dot is one of Edge’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). Edge’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Edge's grants concentrate

Edge Electrons Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Edge sits between East Japan Railway Company and ElectraLED, Inc..

Edge's three-year grant acceleration

Edge Electrons Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

East Japan Railway

12
Eastern Mastec

12
Echodyne

12
Eddy Pump

12
Elance

12
Elasticflash

12
Electra Aero

12
Electraled

12
Edge Electrons ◀

12

What this shows Edge holds 12 patents at rank #22,521, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Edge

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,521 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Edge, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Edge ranks #1,398 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

East Japan Railway Company 30 Inventergy, Inc. 30 Grip Holdings LLC 30 E2V Technologies (UK) Limited 30

Edge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Edge Electrons Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	25.0%
2018	3	25.0%
2019	1	8.3%
2021	3	25.0%
2022	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Edge Electrons Limited patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

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 8

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 5

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H04B - Transmission 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Edge Electrons Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Edge Electrons Limited's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #22,503 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Edge Electrons Limited against East Japan Railway Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.0/100 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

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.