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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Form Energy, Inc. ranks #9,036 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 Form Energy, Inc. hold?

Form Energy, Inc. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

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

Form Energy, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Form Energy, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 30 patents, ranking #517 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Form Energy, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Form Energy, Inc.'s patents?

Form Energy, Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Form Energy, 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

Form Energy, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Form ranks #9,036 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 13 technology areas.

#9,036
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9036 · US Corporation #9,036 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,036/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Esko-Graphics Imaging
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH (±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 Form’s 57.0 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 12.4 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 12.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amcor Flexibles… · near

57
Bombardier Transport… · near

57
Fasteners for Retail · near

57
Form Energy · this assignee

57
Temptime · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Form's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Form?

Each dot is one of Form’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). Form’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Form's grants concentrate

Form Energy, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Form sits between Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH and Fides B.V..

Form's three-year grant acceleration

Form Energy, Inc. 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.

Esko-graphics Ima…

35
Expectations

35
Expel

35
Fontem Holdings 4…

35
Foshan Nationstar…

35
FPT Industrial S…

35
Fujifilm Wako Pur…

35
Fides B V

35
Form Energy ◀

35

What this shows Form holds 35 patents at rank #9,033, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Form

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,033 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Form, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Form ranks #517 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. 57 Temptime Corporation 57 Bombardier Transportation GmbH 57 Fasteners for Retail, Inc. 57

Form's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Form Energy, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	5.7%
2021	3	8.6%
2022	7	20.0%
2023	6	17.1%
2024	9	25.7%
2025partial year	8	22.9%

Which technologies does Form Energy, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 30

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 28

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

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 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Form Energy, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Form Energy, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #9,036 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Form Energy, Inc. against Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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.