Where does Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. ranks #3,546 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 Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. hold?

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +156% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s patents?

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Schneider Electric Systems USA, 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

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. focus on?

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 49 patents, ranking #81 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schneider ranks #3,546 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 44 technology areas.

#3,546
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +156%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3546 · US Corporation #3,546 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,546/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH People ai
CPC-WIDE G05B · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +156% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: People.ai, 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.

How Schneider’s 59.0 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 16.1 pts (27%) Velocity 7.8 pts (13%) Breadth 23.5 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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59
Robotis · near

59
Schneider Electric… · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schneider's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 Schneider?

Each dot is one of Schneider’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). Schneider’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schneider's grants concentrate

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 47.1% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Schneider sits between Proton World International N.V. and Synamedia Limited.

Schneider's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. moved from 35 to 41 grants (1.17x 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 #837. See the growth leaderboard.

Proton World Inte…

104
People ai

104
Pilz & KG

104
Qinetiq

104
Shaanxi Universit…

104
Stamicarbon B V

104
Sunonwealth Elect…

104
Synamedia

104
Schneider Electri… ◀

104

What this shows Schneider holds 104 patents at rank #3,544, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schneider

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,544 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schneider, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Schneider ranks #81 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Robotis Co., Ltd. 59 Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego), Inc. 59 Garrett Transportation I Inc. 59 Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Comscore, Inc. 19.4 avg Riverbed Technology LLC 19.4 avg Chevron Oronite Company LLC 19.4 avg Extreme Networks, Inc. 19.4 avg

Schneider's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	2.9%
2018	10	9.6%
2019	12	11.5%
2020	15	14.4%
2021	8	7.7%
2022	12	11.5%
2023	17	16.3%
2024	12	11.5%
2025partial year	15	14.4%

Which technologies does Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 49

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 39

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 25

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 22

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 22

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 11

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 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 8

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 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

Top 15 of 44 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

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.'s lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 47.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #3,546 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. against Proton World International N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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

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