Where does Intelligent Energy Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intelligent Energy Limited ranks #1,840 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 Intelligent Energy Limited hold?

Intelligent Energy Limited holds 219 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Intelligent Energy Limited's Innovation Score?

Intelligent Energy Limited has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Intelligent Energy Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intelligent Energy Limited's recent grant velocity is -74% 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 Intelligent Energy Limited's patents?

Intelligent Energy Limited's patents average 14.9 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 Intelligent Energy Limited 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

Intelligent Energy Limited

Q: What technology areas does Intelligent Energy Limited focus on?

Intelligent Energy Limited's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 199 patents, ranking #74 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 219 granted patents across 55 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, Intelligent ranks #1,840 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 219 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,840
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1840 · Foreign Corporation #1,840 · 219 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 219 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,840/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Electrolux Home…
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V. (±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 Intelligent’s 55.6 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 18.6 pts (34%) Velocity 3.0 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intelligent Energy · this assignee

56
Proofpoint · near

56
Tokai Chemical… · near

56
Tsubakimoto Chain · near

56
Zscaler · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intelligent's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 Intelligent?

Each dot is one of Intelligent’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). Intelligent’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Intelligent's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Intelligent Energy Limited received 45 grants versus 173 in 2015–2019 (-74% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class Y02E accounts for 90.9% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hosiden Corporation (#1,836) and Vista Outdoor Operations LLC (#1,844).

Intelligent's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Intelligent Energy Limited moved from 55 to 25 grants (0.46x 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 #2,786. See the growth leaderboard.

Hosiden

220
Nidek

220
UBE Industries

220
Electrolux Home P…

219
Solar Turbines In…

219
The Regents of th…

219
Thyssenkrupp Stee…

219
Vista Outdoor Ope…

219
Intelligent Energy ◀

219

What this shows Intelligent holds 219 patents at rank #1,840, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intelligent

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,840 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intelligent, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Intelligent ranks #74 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Tsubakimoto Chain Co. 56 Zscaler, Inc. 56 Proofpoint, Inc. 56 Tokai Chemical Industries, Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Bombardier Transportation GmbH 14.9 avg Konecranes Global Corporation 14.9 avg BorgWarner Inc. 14.9 avg Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives 14.9 avg

Intelligent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Intelligent Energy Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	13.7%
2016	37	16.9%
2017	43	19.6%
2018	28	12.8%
2019	35	16.0%
2020	10	4.6%
2021	10	4.6%
2022	11	5.0%
2023	10	4.6%
2024	4	1.8%
2025partial year	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Intelligent Energy Limited patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 199

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 178

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 70

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 47

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 37

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 15

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 11

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 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

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 3

Top 15 of 55 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

Intelligent Energy Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Intelligent Energy Limited's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,840 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intelligent Energy Limited against Hosiden Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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.

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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