Where does Energy Recovery, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Energy Recovery, Inc. ranks #5,277 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 Energy Recovery, Inc. hold?

Energy Recovery, Inc. holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Energy Recovery, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Energy Recovery, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Energy Recovery, Inc. focus on?

Energy Recovery, Inc.'s top technology area is F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons) with 53 patents, ranking #2 of 112 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Energy Recovery, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Energy Recovery, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Energy Recovery, Inc.'s patents?

Energy Recovery, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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.

How is the Energy Recovery, Inc. 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

Energy Recovery, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Energy ranks #5,277 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 29 technology areas.

#5,277
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5277 · US Corporation #5,277 · 65 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,277/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Darex
CPC-FOCUS F04F · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Darex, 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.

How Energy’s 49.1 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 14.5 pts (30%) Velocity 5.4 pts (11%) Breadth 19.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Emerging Automotive · near

49
Silicon Storage… · near

49
The Patent Well · near

49
Energy Recovery · this assignee

49
SecureAuth · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Energy's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 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 Recovery, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 81.5% of grants classified under F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Energy sits between DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC and Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd..

Energy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Energy Recovery, Inc. moved from 21 to 17 grants (0.81x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

DRS Network & Ima…

65
Darex

65
Deciphera Pharmac…

65
Elite Semiconduct…

65
Envision Aesc Jap…

65
Evapco

65
Fuji Seal Interna…

65
Foxlink Image Tec…

65
Energy Recovery ◀

65

What this shows Energy holds 65 patents at rank #5,277, 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 #5,277 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY…)

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 F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY…), Energy ranks #2 of 112 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

SecureAuth Corporation 49 Emerging Automotive, LLC 49 Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. 49 The Patent Well LLC 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC 16.9 avg Diamond Innovations, Inc. 16.9 avg Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. 16.9 avg AFL Telecommunications LLC 16.9 avg

Energy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Energy Recovery, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.5%
2017	7	10.8%
2018	11	16.9%
2019	10	15.4%
2020	7	10.8%
2021	4	6.2%
2022	4	6.2%
2023	4	6.2%
2024	9	13.8%
2025partial year	8	12.3%

Which technologies does Energy Recovery, Inc. patent most?

F04F - Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons 53

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 35

B01D - Separation 11

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 11

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 11

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

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

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 5

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 4

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 4

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 4

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 3

Top 15 of 29 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 Recovery, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Energy Recovery, Inc.'s lead technology class is F04F (Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons), 81.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04F
Ranked #5,277 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Energy Recovery, Inc. against DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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

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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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