Where does Sacramento Municipal Utility District rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sacramento Municipal Utility District ranks #42,767 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 Sacramento Municipal Utility District hold?

Sacramento Municipal Utility District holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Sacramento Municipal Utility District's Innovation Score?

Sacramento Municipal Utility District has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sacramento Municipal Utility District's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sacramento Municipal Utility District's recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sacramento Municipal Utility District's patents?

Sacramento Municipal Utility District's patents average 23.5 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 Sacramento Municipal Utility District 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

Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Q: What technology areas does Sacramento Municipal Utility District focus on?

Sacramento Municipal Utility District'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 4 patents, ranking #277 of 943 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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, Sacramento ranks #42,767 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 11 technology areas.

#42,767
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R42767 · US Corporation #42,767 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #42,767/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saab Bofors…
CPC-FOCUS Y04S · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland Ltd. (±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 Sacramento’s 42.5 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 6.7 pts (16%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 11.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Meps Real-Time · near

43
Sacramento Municipal… · this assignee

43
Synchronoss · near

43
Thunder Power Hong… · near

43
Vecna Robotics · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sacramento's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Sacramento?

Each dot is one of Sacramento’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). Sacramento’s own 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sacramento's grants concentrate

Sacramento Municipal Utility District is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under Y04S (Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR ). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Sacramento sits between SaNOtize Research and Development Corp. and SafeMoon US, LLC.

Sacramento's three-year grant acceleration

Sacramento Municipal Utility District shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Sanotize Research…

6
Saab Bofors Dynam…

6
Sabic Innovative…

6
Sackett Solutions…

6
Saeta & KG

6
Safkan

6
Safe Hydrogen

6
Safemoon US

6
Sacramento Munici… ◀

6

What this shows Sacramento holds 6 patents at rank #43,070, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sacramento

By rank, the assignees closest to #43,070 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sacramento, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y04S (Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network…), Sacramento ranks #277 of 943 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Vecna Robotics, Inc. 43 Thunder Power Hong Kong Ltd. 43 Synchronoss Technologies, Inc 43 Meps Real-Time, Inc. 43

Sacramento's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sacramento Municipal Utility District patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	16.7%
2021	2	33.3%
2022	1	16.7%
2023	1	16.7%
2024	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Sacramento Municipal Utility District 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 4

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

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

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

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G01W - Meteorology 1

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

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 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Sacramento Municipal Utility District's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District's lead technology class is Y04S (Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR ), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y04S
Ranked #42,767 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sacramento Municipal Utility District against SaNOtize Research and Development Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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