Where does Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation ranks #7,691 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's Innovation Score?

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation has an Innovation Score of 69.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's recent grant velocity is +79% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's patents?

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's patents average 18.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation

Q: How many patents does Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation hold?

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation focus on?

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 11 patents, ranking #423 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 49 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Energy ranks #7,691 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 49 technology areas.

#7,691
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.1/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7691 · US Corporation #7,691 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,691/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dawn Equipment
CPC-WIDE B01D · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dawn Equipment 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 Energy’s 69.1 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 13.0 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 24.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intrinsic Innovation · near

69
Energy and Environme… · this assignee

69
Tencent Technology… · near

69
Toppan · near

69
King Fahd University… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Energy's Innovation Score is 69.1/100 (top 1% 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 Energy?

Each dot is one of Energy’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). Energy’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Energy's grants concentrate

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 26.2% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Energy sits between Dawn Equipment Company and FPInnovations.

Energy's three-year grant acceleration

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

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42

What this shows Energy holds 42 patents at rank #7,691, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Energy

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,691 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Energy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01D (Separation), Energy ranks #423 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Toppan Inc. 69 Tencent Technology (SHENZHEN) Company Limited 69 Intrinsic Innovation LLC 69 King Fahd University OF Petroleum AND Minerals 69

Energy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.1%
2016	2	4.8%
2017	5	11.9%
2018	2	4.8%
2019	2	4.8%
2020	2	4.8%
2021	1	2.4%
2022	2	4.8%
2023	11	26.2%
2024	9	21.4%
2025partial year	3	7.1%

Which technologies does Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation patent most?

B01D - Separation 11

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 8

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 8

F28C - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media Come Into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction 6

F28B - Steam OR Vapour Condensers 6

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 4

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 3

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 3

Top 15 of 49 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

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation's lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 26.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #7,691 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation against Dawn Equipment Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.1/100 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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