Where does OPower, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), OPower, Inc. ranks #7,316 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 OPower, Inc. hold?

OPower, Inc. holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is OPower, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

OPower, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is OPower, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

OPower, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 OPower, Inc.'s patents?

OPower, Inc.'s patents average 17.4 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 OPower, Inc. 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 US Corporation

OPower, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does OPower, Inc. focus on?

OPower, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 33 patents, ranking #421 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Opower ranks #7,316 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,316
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7316 · US Corporation #7,316 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,316/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neo Wireless
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neo Wireless 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 Opower’s 40.9 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 13.2 pts (32%) Velocity 1.0 pts (2%) Breadth 16.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GEA Process… · near

41
Gogo · near

41
Idenix Pharmaceuticals · near

41
Karl Leibinger… · near

41
OPower · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Opower's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Opower?

Each dot is one of Opower’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). Opower’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Opower's grants concentrate

OPower, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Opower sits between Norco Industries, Inc. and Precision BioSciences, Inc..

Opower's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, OPower, Inc. moved from 20 to 3 grants (0.15x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Norco Industries

45
Novaliq

45
Neo Wireless

45
Oneplus Technolog…

45
Onto Innovation

45
Paul Hartmann

45
Polyplus Battery

45
Precision Bioscie…

45
Opower ◀

45

What this shows OPower holds 45 patents at rank #7,312, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near OPower

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,312 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for OPower, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), OPower ranks #421 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & Co. KG 41 Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC 41 Gogo LLC 41 GEA Process Engineering A/S 41

Opower's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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OPower, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	8.9%
2017	6	13.3%
2018	12	26.7%
2019	8	17.8%
2020	9	20.0%
2021	3	6.7%
2022	2	4.4%
2023	1	2.2%

Which technologies does OPower, Inc. patent most?

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 33

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 8

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 7

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

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

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 2

Top 15 of 21 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

OPower, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

OPower, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #7,316 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare OPower, Inc. against Norco Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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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