Where does Schumacher Electric Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schumacher Electric Corporation ranks #9,368 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 Schumacher Electric Corporation hold?

Schumacher Electric Corporation holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Schumacher Electric Corporation's Innovation Score?

Schumacher Electric Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schumacher Electric Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schumacher Electric Corporation's recent grant velocity is +7% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Schumacher Electric Corporation's patents?

Schumacher Electric Corporation's patents average 20.9 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 Schumacher Electric Corporation 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

Schumacher Electric Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Schumacher Electric Corporation focus on?

Schumacher Electric Corporation's top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 31 patents, ranking #192 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 16 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schumacher ranks #9,368 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 16 technology areas.

#9,368
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9368 · US Corporation #9,368 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,368/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sakata Seed America
CPC-FOCUS H02J · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sakata Seed America, 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 Schumacher’s 48.5 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 12.3 pts (25%) Velocity 9.5 pts (20%) Breadth 14.1 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baltimore Aircoil · near

48
Hitchiner Manufactur… · near

48
NTT Communications · near

48
Schumacher Electric · this assignee

48
Universiteit Leiden · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schumacher's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Schumacher?

Each dot is one of Schumacher’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). Schumacher’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schumacher's grants concentrate

Schumacher Electric Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 91.2% of grants classified under H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Schumacher sits between Sakata Seed America, Inc. and Shenzhen OUR New Medical Technologies Development Co., Ltd..

Schumacher's three-year grant acceleration

Schumacher Electric Corporation shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Sakata Seed Ameri…

34
Samsara Networks

34
Schneider Electri…

34
Schreder

34
Seed Health

34
Selig Sealing Pro…

34
Shenzhen Nearbyex…

34
Shenzhen OUR New…

34
Schumacher Electr… ◀

34

What this shows Schumacher holds 34 patents at rank #9,378, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schumacher

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,378 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schumacher, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Schumacher ranks #192 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Universiteit Leiden 48 NTT Communications Corporation 48 Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc. 48 Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. 48

Schumacher's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Schumacher Electric Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2016	6	17.6%
2017	3	8.8%
2018	4	11.8%
2019	1	2.9%
2020	3	8.8%
2021	3	8.8%
2022	2	5.9%
2023	3	8.8%
2024	5	14.7%
2025partial year	3	8.8%

Which technologies does Schumacher Electric Corporation patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 31

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 16

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 15

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 15

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 9

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 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 5

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 3

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 3

Top 15 of 16 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

Schumacher Electric Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schumacher Electric Corporation's lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 91.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #9,368 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schumacher Electric Corporation against Sakata Seed America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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