Where does innogy SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), innogy SE ranks #7,283 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 innogy SE hold?

innogy SE holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is innogy SE's Innovation Score?

innogy SE has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is innogy SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

innogy SE's recent grant velocity is +175% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for innogy SE's patents?

innogy SE's patents average 12.0 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 innogy SE 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

innogy SE

Q: What technology areas does innogy SE focus on?

innogy SE's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 15 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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, innogy ranks #7,283 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 37 technology areas.

#7,283
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: +175%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7283 · Foreign Corporation #7,283 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,283/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH eMagin
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +175% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: eMagin Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
First Dome · near

44
innogy SE · this assignee

44
Siemens Healthcare… · near

44
Tesat-Spacecom & KG · near

44
Vayyar Imaging · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows innogy's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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.

Where innogy's grants concentrate

innogy SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, innogy sits between Xicato, Inc. and Arashi Vision Inc..

innogy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, innogy SE moved from 34 to 8 grants (0.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Xicato

45
Zhejiang Uniview

45
emagin

45
ifit

45
innogy SE ◀

45
Alliance Sports G…

44
Alpha Assembly So…

44
Anden

44
Arashi Vision

44

What this shows innogy holds 45 patents at rank #7,357, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near innogy

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,357 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for innogy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG 44 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH 44 First Dome Corporation 44 Vayyar Imaging Ltd. 44

innogy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

innogy SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	2.2%
2018	2	4.4%
2019	9	20.0%
2020	12	26.7%
2021	13	28.9%
2022	4	8.9%
2023	3	6.7%
2024	1	2.2%

Which technologies does innogy SE patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

F03D - Wind Motors 14

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

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 13

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 12

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 10

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 8

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

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 4

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 4

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 3

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,283

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

innogy SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

innogy SE's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #7,283 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare innogy SE against Xicato, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.