Where does General Electric Technology GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Electric Technology GMBH ranks #668 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 General Electric Technology GMBH hold?

General Electric Technology GMBH holds 670 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 186 technology areas.

What is General Electric Technology GMBH's Innovation Score?

General Electric Technology GMBH has an Innovation Score of 57.7 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 General Electric Technology GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Electric Technology GMBH's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 General Electric Technology GMBH's patents?

General Electric Technology GMBH's patents average 13.7 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 General Electric Technology GMBH 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 Foreign Corporation

General Electric Technology GMBH

Q: What technology areas does General Electric Technology GMBH focus on?

General Electric Technology GMBH's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 179 patents, ranking #79 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 186 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 670 granted patents across 186 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #668 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 670 patents across 186 technology areas.

#668
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.7/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R668 · Foreign Corporation #668 · 670 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 670 grants
TOP-DECILE #668/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TE Connectivity
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 186 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TE Connectivity 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 General’s 57.7 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 22.5 pts (39%) Velocity 2.0 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chicony · near

58
General Electric… · this assignee

58
Omega · near

58
Panasonic Energy · near

58
The Raymond · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 57.7/100 (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 General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How General's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, General Electric Technology GMBH received 248 grants versus 420 in 2015–2019 (-41% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 136 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 11. Lead class Y02E accounts for 26.7% of the portfolio across 186 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Aisin AW Co., Ltd. (#664) and Kuraray Co., Ltd. (#672).

General's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, General Electric Technology GMBH moved from 264 to 78 grants (0.29x 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 #3,003. See the growth leaderboard.

Aisin AW

674
KCI Licensing

673
National Taiwan U…

671
Trane Internation…

671
TE Connectivity

670
General Electric… ◀

670
ATI ULC

669
BAE Systems

669
Kuraray

669

What this shows General holds 670 patents at rank #668, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #668 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for General, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), General ranks #79 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. 58 The Raymond Corporation 58 Omega SA 58 Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Alstom Technology Ltd 13.7 avg Duksan Neolux Co., Ltd 13.7 avg Abbott Molecular Inc. 13.7 avg ALi Corporation 13.7 avg

General'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

General Electric Technology GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	83	12.4%
2017	136	20.3%
2018	107	16.0%
2019	94	14.0%
2020	106	15.8%
2021	64	9.6%
2022	43	6.4%
2023	24	3.6%
2024	11	1.6%
2025partial year	2	0.3%

Which technologies does General Electric Technology GMBH patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 179

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 101

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 92

B01D - Separation 88

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 82

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 79

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 66

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 59

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 57

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 57

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 56

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 46

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 45

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 44

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 42

Top 15 of 186 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

General Electric Technology GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

General Electric Technology GMBH's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 26.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #668 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Electric Technology GMBH against Aisin AW Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.7/100 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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