Where does Pacific GAS AND Electric Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pacific GAS AND Electric Company ranks #18,999 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Pacific GAS AND Electric Company hold?

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's Innovation Score?

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's patents?

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's patents average 19.1 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 Pacific GAS AND Electric Company 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

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company

Q: What technology areas does Pacific GAS AND Electric Company focus on?

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: Y04S (SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR ).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pacific ranks #18,999 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 24 technology areas.

#18,999
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18999 · US Corporation #18,999 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,999/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Outerwall
CPC-FOCUS Y04S · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Outerwall Inc. (±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
Pacific GAS AND Elec… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Pacific GAS AND Electric Company stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #18,999 of 50,000; Innovation Score 46.1/100 sits in the top 22% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Outerwall Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Pacific GAS AND Electric Company has been granted 15 US utility patents between 2016 and 2024, placing Pacific GAS AND Electric Company at #18,999 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 24 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 19.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in Y04S (SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR ). As a US Corporation, Pacific GAS AND Electric Company is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Pacific sits between Outerwall Inc. (15 patents, rank #18,989) and Pelmorex Canada Inc. (15 patents, rank #18,997) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 46.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 12 grants, compared with 3 in the 2015–2019 window, a +300% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Pacific GAS AND Electric Company's 19.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 24 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Outerwall

15
Outset Medical

15
Oxyrane UK

15
Pablo AIR

15
Pacificedge

15
Pallmann Maschine…

15
Pearl Musical Ins…

15
Pelmorex Canada

15
Pacific GAS AND E… ◀

15

What this shows Pacific holds 15 patents at rank #18,993, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pacific

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,993 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y04S (Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network…)

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

Pacific's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Pacific GAS AND Electric Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	6.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	3	20.0%
2021	2	13.3%
2022	2	13.3%
2023	2	13.3%
2024	3	20.0%

Which technologies does Pacific GAS AND Electric Company patent most?

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

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 6

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

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 4

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 4

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 3

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 3

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 2

H02H - EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS 2

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 2

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 2

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 1

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 1

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,999

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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