Where does S&C Electric Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), S&C Electric Company ranks #3,025 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 S&C Electric Company hold?

S&C Electric Company holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is S&C Electric Company's Innovation Score?

S&C Electric Company has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does S&C Electric Company focus on?

S&C Electric Company's top technology area is H02H (Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is S&C Electric Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

S&C Electric Company's recent grant velocity is +226% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for S&C Electric Company's patents?

S&C Electric Company's patents average 16.2 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 S&C 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

S&C Electric Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H02H (Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, S&c ranks #3,025 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 33 technology areas.

#3,025
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +226%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3025 · US Corporation #3,025 · 126 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,025/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanotronics Imaging
CPC-FOCUS H02H · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +226% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanotronics Imaging, 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
Andersen · near

56
Georgia-Pacific… · near

56
Livsmed · near

56
S&C Electric · this assignee

56
Total Research &… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows S&c's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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.

Where S&c's grants concentrate

S&C Electric Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 41.3% of grants classified under H02H (Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (26 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, S&c sits between NEC Laboratories America, Inc. and Tactual Labs Co..

S&c's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, S&C Electric Company moved from 42 to 56 grants (1.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #602. See the growth leaderboard.

NEC Laboratories…

126
Nanotronics Imagi…

126
Piolax

126
Pinterest

126
SUN Pharmaceutica…

126
Sogang University…

126
THE Hillman Group

126
Tactual Labs

126
S&C Electric ◀

126

What this shows S&C holds 126 patents at rank #3,024, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near S&C

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,024 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02H (Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in S&C's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for S&C, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP 56 Total Research & Technology Feluy 56 Andersen Corporation 56 Livsmed Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

TK Holdings, LLC 16.2 avg Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong) 16.2 avg Dana Belgium N.V. 16.2 avg Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC 16.2 avg

S&c's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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S&C Electric Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.6%
2016	3	2.4%
2017	8	6.3%
2018	4	3.2%
2019	10	7.9%
2020	18	14.3%
2021	14	11.1%
2022	15	11.9%
2023	26	20.6%
2024	15	11.9%
2025partial year	11	8.7%

Which technologies does S&C Electric Company patent most?

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 52

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 46

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 39

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 37

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 32

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 10

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 8

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 6

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 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 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,025

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

S&C Electric Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

S&C Electric Company's lead technology class is H02H (Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements), 41.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02H
Ranked #3,025 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare S&C Electric Company against NEC Laboratories America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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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