Where does Energous Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Energous Corporation ranks #1,406 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 Energous Corporation hold?

Energous Corporation holds 300 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Energous Corporation's Innovation Score?

Energous Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Energous Corporation's recent grant velocity is -66% 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 Energous Corporation's patents?

Energous Corporation's patents average 19.7 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 Energous 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

Energous Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Energous Corporation focus on?

Energous Corporation's top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 274 patents, ranking #10 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 300 granted patents across 47 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Energous ranks #1,406 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 300 patents across 47 technology areas.

#1,406
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1406 · US Corporation #1,406 · 300 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 300 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,406/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amphenol
CPC-WIDE H02J · 47 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amphenol Corporation (±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 Energous’s 59.5 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 19.7 pts (33%) Velocity 3.7 pts (6%) Breadth 24.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Docusign · near

59
Energous · this assignee

59
Roche Sequencing… · near

59
Tetra Laval… · near

59
Institute FOR… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Energous's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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 Energous?

Each dot is one of Energous’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). Energous’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Energous's grants concentrate

Energous Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 91.3% of grants classified under H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (109 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Energous sits between Wal-mart Stores, Inc. and Applied Medical Resources Corporation.

Energous's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Energous Corporation moved from 85 to 47 grants (0.55x 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 #2,565. See the growth leaderboard.

Wal-mart Stores

301
Amphenol

300
Arvinmeritor Tech…

300
Baxalta Incorpora…

300
Energous ◀

300
Bloom Energy

299
Greatbatch

299
Lemon

299
Applied Medical R…

298

What this shows Energous holds 300 patents at rank #1,406, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Energous

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,406 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Energous, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Energous ranks #10 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 59 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 59 Docusign, Inc. 59 Institute FOR Information Industry 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Zazzle Inc. 19.7 avg Teva Pharmaceuticals International GMBH 19.7 avg Aseko, Inc. 19.7 avg Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC 19.7 avg

Energous's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Energous Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.0%
2016	15	5.0%
2017	31	10.3%
2018	109	36.3%
2019	59	19.7%
2020	11	3.7%
2021	15	5.0%
2022	16	5.3%
2023	18	6.0%
2024	13	4.3%
2025partial year	10	3.3%

Which technologies does Energous Corporation patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 274

H04B - Transmission 133

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 61

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 44

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 15

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 14

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 8

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 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

Top 15 of 47 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

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

Energous Corporation's lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 91.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #1,406 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Energous Corporation against Wal-mart Stores, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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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