Where does Quantumscape Battery, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Quantumscape Battery, Inc. ranks #5,242 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 Quantumscape Battery, Inc. hold?

Quantumscape Battery, Inc. holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Quantumscape Battery, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Quantumscape Battery, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.0 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Quantumscape Battery, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Quantumscape Battery, Inc.'s patents?

Quantumscape Battery, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Quantumscape Battery, 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

Quantumscape Battery, Inc.

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

Quantumscape Battery, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 65 patents, ranking #231 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Quantumscape ranks #5,242 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,242
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.0/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5242 · US Corporation #5,242 · 66 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,242/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Orthosoft ULC
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 27 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Orthosoft ULC (±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 Quantumscape’s 64.0 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 14.5 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 18.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Quantumscape Battery · this assignee

64
SK Telecom · near

64
University of… · near

64
Citibank N A · near

64
Maxar Space · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Quantumscape's Innovation Score is 64.0/100 (top 2% 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 Quantumscape?

Each dot is one of Quantumscape’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). Quantumscape’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Quantumscape's grants concentrate

Quantumscape Battery, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 98.5% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (21 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2022. By volume, Quantumscape sits between Orthosoft ULC and Sorin Group Italia S.r.l..

Quantumscape's three-year grant acceleration

Quantumscape Battery, Inc. shows 46 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Orthosoft ULC

66
Pcms Holdings

66
Photonics Technol…

66
Paul Hettich & KG

66
R P Scherer

66
Röchling Automoti…

66
Silver Spring Net…

66
Sorin Group Itali…

66
Quantumscape Batt… ◀

66

What this shows Quantumscape holds 66 patents at rank #5,242, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Quantumscape

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,242 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Quantumscape, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Quantumscape ranks #231 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

University of Tennessee Research Foundation 64 SK Telecom Co., Ltd. 64 Maxar Space LLC 64 Citibank, N.A. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Tescom Corporation 18.6 avg Opex Corporation 18.6 avg Arizona Board OF Regents, A Body Corporate OF THE State OF Arizona Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University 18.6 avg Intel Deutschland GmbH 18.6 avg

Quantumscape's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Quantumscape Battery, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	13	19.7%
2022	9	13.6%
2023	16	24.2%
2024	21	31.8%
2025partial year	7	10.6%

Which technologies does Quantumscape Battery, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 65

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 57

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 28

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 24

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 20

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

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 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 6

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 5

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

B30B - Presses IN General 3

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 3

Top 15 of 27 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

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

Quantumscape Battery, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 98.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #5,242 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Quantumscape Battery, Inc. against Orthosoft ULC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.0/100 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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