Where does Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG ranks #2,197 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 Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG hold?

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG holds 179 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's Innovation Score?

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG has an Innovation Score of 73.5 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%).

What technology areas does Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG focus on?

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's top technology area is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables) with 40 patents, ranking #150 of 3,424 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG.

What does claim depth mean for Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's patents?

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's patents average 17.5 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 Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG 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

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 179 granted patents across 82 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hitachi ranks #2,197 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 179 patents across 82 technology areas.

#2,197
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.5/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2197 · Foreign Corporation #2,197 · 179 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 179 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,197/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Csmc Fab2
CPC-WIDE G01R · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Csmc Technologies Fab2 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 Hitachi’s 73.5 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 17.9 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (27%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bmic · near

73
Zhejiang University · near

73
Advanced Micro Devices · near

73
Hitachi Energy… · this assignee

73
Qualcomm · near

73
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hitachi's Innovation Score is 73.5/100 (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 Hitachi?

Each dot is one of 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). Hitachi’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hitachi's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2021–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 89 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class G01R accounts for 22.3% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. (#2,193) and Synaptive Medical (BARBADOS) Inc. (#2,201).

Hitachi's three-year grant acceleration

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG shows 171 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Csmc Fab2

179
Doosan Infracore

179
GE Avio S R L

179
Global Unichip

179
Inteva Products

179
Katholieke Univer…

179
Kureha

179
Synaptive Medical…

179
Hitachi Energy Sw… ◀

179

What this shows Hitachi holds 179 patents at rank #2,197, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hitachi

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,197 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01R (Measuring Electric Variables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hitachi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01R (Measuring Electric Variables), Hitachi ranks #150 of 3,424 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (73 here).

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 73 Qualcomm Technologies Inc. 73 Zhejiang University 73 Bmic LLC 73

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Concept Laser, GmbH 17.5 avg Board OF Regents OF THE University OF Nebraska 17.5 avg K2M, Inc. 17.5 avg Indian Institute OF Technology Madras (IIT MADRAS) 17.5 avg

Hitachi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

73 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 · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	7	3.9%
2022	89	49.7%
2023	78	43.6%
2024	4	2.2%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG patent most?

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 40

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 37

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 34

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 30

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 29

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 26

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 23

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 20

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 17

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 8

Top 15 of 82 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

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG's lead technology class is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables), 22.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01R
Ranked #2,197 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG against Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.5/100 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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