Where does Orcan Energy AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orcan Energy AG ranks #13,603 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 Orcan Energy AG hold?

Orcan Energy AG holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Orcan Energy AG's Innovation Score?

Orcan Energy AG has an Innovation Score of 39.8 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Orcan Energy AG's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Orcan Energy AG's patents?

Orcan Energy AG's patents average 15.5 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 Orcan Energy 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

Orcan Energy AG

Q: What technology areas does Orcan Energy AG focus on?

Orcan Energy AG's top technology area is F01K (Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles) with 20 patents, ranking #12 of 225 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: F01K (Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orcan ranks #13,603 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 28 technology areas.

#13,603
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.8/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13603 · Foreign Corporation #13,603 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,603/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Occidental Chemical
CPC-FOCUS F01K · 28 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Occidental Chemical 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.

How Orcan’s 39.8 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 10.8 pts (27%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 18.7 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fonar · near

40
Orcan Energy · this assignee

40
Solexel · near

40
Stahls' · near

40
THE George Washingto… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orcan's Innovation Score is 39.8/100 (top 37% 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 Orcan?

Each dot is one of Orcan’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). Orcan’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Orcan's grants concentrate

Orcan Energy AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under F01K (Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Orcan sits between ON Clouds GMBH and Occidental Chemical Corporation.

Orcan's three-year grant acceleration

Orcan Energy AG shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

ON Clouds

22
Optoelectronics

22
Orange Pine PTE

22
Orbital Australia…

22
Orckit IP

22
Owlet Baby Care

22
Oxide Interactive

22
Occidental Chemic…

22
Orcan Energy ◀

22

What this shows Orcan holds 22 patents at rank #13,595, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orcan

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,595 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01K (Steam Engine Plants)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Orcan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01K (Steam Engine Plants), Orcan ranks #12 of 225 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

THE George Washington University, A Congressionally Chartered Not-for-profit Corporation 40 Stahls' Inc. 40 Solexel, Inc. 40 Fonar Corporation 40

Orcan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

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

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Orcan Energy AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	13.6%
2018	3	13.6%
2019	8	36.4%
2020	4	18.2%
2021	2	9.1%
2022	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Orcan Energy AG patent most?

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 20

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 5

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 4

F28B - Steam OR Vapour Condensers 3

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 3

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 2

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

F02G - HOT GAS OR Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants ; USE OF Waste Heat OF Combustion ENGINES; NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

Top 15 of 28 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

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

Orcan Energy AG's lead technology class is F01K (Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01K
Ranked #13,603 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orcan Energy AG against ON Clouds GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.8/100 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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