Where does GE Global Sourcing LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GE Global Sourcing LLC ranks #2,437 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 GE Global Sourcing LLC hold?

GE Global Sourcing LLC holds 160 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2022, spanning 93 technology areas.

What is GE Global Sourcing LLC's Innovation Score?

GE Global Sourcing LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.5 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GE Global Sourcing LLC focus on?

GE Global Sourcing LLC's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 56 patents, ranking #149 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 93 CPC subclasses total.

Is GE Global Sourcing LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GE Global Sourcing LLC's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 GE Global Sourcing LLC's patents?

GE Global Sourcing LLC's patents average 16.5 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 GE Global Sourcing LLC 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

GE Global Sourcing LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 160 granted patents across 93 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2022. 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GE ranks #2,437 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 160 patents across 93 technology areas.

#2,437
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2437 · US Corporation #2,437 · 160 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 160 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,437/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carvana
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 93 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carvana, 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 GE’s 52.5 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 17.6 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dowa Materials · near

53
Drnc Holdings · near

53
GE Global Sourcing · this assignee

53
Johnson Electric · near

53
MultiDimension… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GE's Innovation Score is 52.5/100 (top 10% 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 GE?

Each dot is one of GE’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). GE’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How GE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, GE Global Sourcing LLC received 56 grants versus 104 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 104 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 35% of the portfolio across 93 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Carvana, LLC (#2,433) and Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd. (#2,441).

GE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GE Global Sourcing LLC moved from 159 to 1 grants (0.01x 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 #3,293. See the growth leaderboard.

Carvana

160
Feitian

160
Fina Technology

160
Fronius Internati…

160
Globe (Jiangsu)

160
Hitachi Koki

160
IMEC

160
Innovative Techno…

160
GE Global Sourcing ◀

160

What this shows GE holds 160 patents at rank #2,437, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GE

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,437 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), GE ranks #149 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd. 53 Johnson Electric S.A. 53 MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd. 53 Drnc Holdings, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

North Atlantic Imports, LLC 16.5 avg Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. 16.5 avg Honeywell International Inc. 16.5 avg SnapTrack, Inc. 16.6 avg

GE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2022

Grants by year

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

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GE Global Sourcing LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	104	65.0%
2020	54	33.8%
2021	1	0.6%
2022	1	0.6%

Which technologies does GE Global Sourcing LLC patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 56

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 44

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 33

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 20

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 19

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 19

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 17

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 16

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 11

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 11

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 10

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 6

Top 15 of 93 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

GE Global Sourcing LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GE Global Sourcing LLC's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 35% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,437 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GE Global Sourcing LLC against Carvana, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.5/100 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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