Where does GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC ranks #1,865 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-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC hold?

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC holds 215 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's Innovation Score?

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's recent grant velocity is -21% 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-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's patents?

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's patents average 15.6 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-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 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-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC

Q: What technology areas does GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC focus on?

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 178 patents, ranking #80 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 215 granted patents across 81 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ge-hitachi ranks #1,865 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 215 patents across 81 technology areas.

#1,865
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1865 · US Corporation #1,865 · 215 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 215 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,865/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chicony
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. (±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-hitachi’s 58.3 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 18.6 pts (32%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE-Hitachi Nuclear… · this assignee

58
Johnson & Johnson… · near

58
Kansas State… · near

58
Kautex Textron & KG · near

58
Silicon Motion · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ge-hitachi's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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-hitachi?

Each dot is one of Ge-hitachi’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-hitachi’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ge-hitachi's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC received 92 grants versus 116 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 31 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 9. Lead class Y02E accounts for 82.8% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft (#1,861) and Westerngeco L.L.C. (#1,869).

Ge-hitachi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC moved from 66 to 53 grants (0.80x 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 #1,838. See the growth leaderboard.

AT&S Austria & Sy…

216
Egalax_empia Tech…

216
Pantech

216
Chicony

215
Hulu

215
Saab AB

215
Ticona

215
Westerngeco L L C

215
Ge-hitachi Nuclea… ◀

215

What this shows GE-Hitachi holds 215 patents at rank #1,865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GE-Hitachi

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,865 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GE-Hitachi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), GE-Hitachi ranks #80 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG 58 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 58 Kansas State University Research Foundation 58 Silicon Motion, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited 15.6 avg Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc. 15.6 avg Washington University 15.6 avg Korrus, Inc. 15.6 avg

Ge-hitachi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	12.6%
2016	20	9.3%
2017	20	9.3%
2018	22	10.2%
2019	27	12.6%
2020	26	12.1%
2021	13	6.0%
2022	31	14.4%
2023	13	6.0%
2024	9	4.2%
2025partial year	7	3.3%

Which technologies does GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 178

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 173

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 40

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 18

G21G - Conversion OF Chemical ELEMENTS; Radioactive Sources 15

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 15

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 11

F04F - Pumping OF Fluid BY Direct Contact OF Another Fluid OR BY Using Inertia OF Fluid TO BE Pumped ; Siphons 11

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 10

B01D - Separation 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

Top 15 of 81 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-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,865 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC against AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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

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