Where does Generac Power Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Generac Power Systems, Inc. ranks #5,671 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 Generac Power Systems, Inc. hold?

Generac Power Systems, Inc. holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Generac Power Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.4 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 Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +112% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s patents average 14.2 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 Generac Power Systems, 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

Generac Power Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Generac Power Systems, Inc. focus on?

Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 14 patents, ranking #400 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 45 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Generac ranks #5,671 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 45 technology areas.

#5,671
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.4/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +112%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5671 · US Corporation #5,671 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,671/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Everlast Climbing…
CPC-WIDE H02J · 45 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +112% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Everlast Climbing Industries, Inc. (±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 Generac’s 66.4 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 14.2 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 23.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wuhan University · near

66
CreeLED · near

66
Generac Power Systems · this assignee

66
SPM Oil & Gas · near

66
Xilinx · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Generac's Innovation Score is 66.4/100 (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 Generac?

Each dot is one of Generac’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). Generac’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Generac's grants concentrate

Generac Power Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 23.3% of grants classified under H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Generac sits between Evolva SA and Heliae Development, LLC.

Generac's three-year grant acceleration

Generac Power Systems, Inc. shows 30 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Evolva

60
Everlast Climbing…

60
F S Korea Industr…

60
Guangdong Midea K…

60
Great Lakes Neuro…

60
Hankook Tire & Te…

60
HBI Branded Appar…

60
Heliae Development

60
Generac Power Sys… ◀

60

What this shows Generac holds 60 patents at rank #5,671, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Generac

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,671 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Generac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Generac ranks #400 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

SPM Oil & Gas Inc. 66 CreeLED, Inc. 66 Xilinx, Inc. 66 Wuhan University 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH 14.2 avg BioVentures, LLC 14.2 avg ZF Active Safety US Inc. 14.2 avg Faurecia Sièges d'Automobile 14.2 avg

Generac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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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Generac Power Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.0%
2016	5	8.3%
2017	3	5.0%
2018	6	10.0%
2020	3	5.0%
2021	3	5.0%
2022	7	11.7%
2023	9	15.0%
2024	14	23.3%
2025partial year	7	11.7%

Which technologies does Generac Power Systems, Inc. patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 14

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 11

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 10

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 10

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 5

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 4

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 4

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

E01H - Street CLEANING; Cleaning OF Permanent WAYS; Cleaning BEACHES; Dispersing ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN General ; Cleaning Street OR Railway Furniture OR Tunnel Walls 3

Top 15 of 45 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

Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Generac Power Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 23.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #5,671 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Generac Power Systems, Inc. against Evolva SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.4/100 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.

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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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