Where does Hydrogenics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hydrogenics Corporation ranks #7,711 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 Hydrogenics Corporation hold?

Hydrogenics Corporation holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Hydrogenics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hydrogenics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hydrogenics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hydrogenics Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hydrogenics Corporation's patents?

Hydrogenics Corporation's patents average 16.2 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 Hydrogenics Corporation 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

Hydrogenics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Hydrogenics Corporation focus on?

Hydrogenics Corporation's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 40 patents, ranking #377 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 18 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, Hydrogenics ranks #7,711 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,711
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7711 · Foreign Corporation #7,711 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,711/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gramercy Products
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gramercy Products, 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 Hydrogenics’s 48.6 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 13.0 pts (27%) Velocity 10.9 pts (22%) Breadth 15.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Technology… · near

49
Abus August… · near

49
Adva Optical… · near

49
Dexin · near

49
Hydrogenics · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hydrogenics's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 Hydrogenics?

Each dot is one of Hydrogenics’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). Hydrogenics’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hydrogenics's grants concentrate

Hydrogenics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hydrogenics sits between Gutterglove, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Industrial Printing Ltd..

Hydrogenics's three-year grant acceleration

Hydrogenics Corporation shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Gutterglove

42
Gramercy Products

42
Hartin Electric S…

42
Hsio

42
Haier Group

42
Heraeus Electro-n…

42
Hesai Technology

42
Hewlett-packard I…

42
Hydrogenics ◀

42

What this shows Hydrogenics holds 42 patents at rank #7,706, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hydrogenics

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,706 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hydrogenics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Hydrogenics ranks #377 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Abus August Bremicker Söhne KG 49 Adva Optical Networking SE 49 Dexin Corporation 49 Advanced Technology & Materials Co., Ltd. 49

Hydrogenics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Hydrogenics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.4%
2016	1	2.4%
2017	1	2.4%
2018	4	9.5%
2019	5	11.9%
2020	4	9.5%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	7	16.7%
2023	9	21.4%
2024	2	4.8%
2025partial year	6	14.3%

Which technologies does Hydrogenics Corporation patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 40

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 35

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 11

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 5

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 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

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 1

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 1

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 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Hydrogenics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hydrogenics Corporation's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #7,711 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hydrogenics Corporation against Gutterglove, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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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