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 50,000 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 (top 67% 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. 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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#22,503
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 67%
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 #22,503/50,000
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.

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 Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Edge's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (top 67% 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.

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..

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).

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 Top 67% higher than 33% of 50,000 US assignees

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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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,503

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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