Where does SMA Solar Technology AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SMA Solar Technology AG ranks #1,763 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 SMA Solar Technology AG hold?

SMA Solar Technology AG holds 231 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is SMA Solar Technology AG's Innovation Score?

SMA Solar Technology AG has an Innovation Score of 58.6 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 SMA Solar Technology AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SMA Solar Technology AG's recent grant velocity is -38% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for SMA Solar Technology AG's patents?

SMA Solar Technology AG's patents average 15.4 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 SMA Solar Technology AG 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 Foreign Corporation

SMA Solar Technology AG

Q: What technology areas does SMA Solar Technology AG focus on?

SMA Solar Technology AG's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 146 patents. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 231 granted patents across 44 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SMA ranks #1,763 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 231 patents across 44 technology areas.

#1,763
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1763 · Foreign Corporation #1,763 · 231 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 231 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,763/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Juul Labs
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Juul Labs, 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
Brelyon · near

59
Champion Link… · near

59
Loewenstein Medical… · near

59
SMA Solar Technology · this assignee

59
Toyota Jidoshokki · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SMA's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (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.

Where SMA's grants concentrate

SMA Solar Technology AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 63.2% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (31 grants) versus a trough of 14 in 2020. By volume, SMA sits between Juul Labs, Inc. and Autel Intelligent Technology Corp., Ltd..

SMA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SMA Solar Technology AG moved from 51 to 54 grants (1.06x 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 #1,042. See the growth leaderboard.

Juul Labs

231
KPN Innovations

231
Koninklijke KPN

231
Nite Ize

231
THK

231
SMA Solar Technol… ◀

231
Agency FOR Defens…

230
American Megatren…

230
Autel Intelligent…

230

What this shows SMA holds 231 patents at rank #1,763, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SMA

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,763 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki 59 Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A. 59 Champion Link International Corporation 59 Brelyon Inc 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Advantest Corporation 15.4 avg GEA Farm Technologies GmbH 15.4 avg Humana Inc. 15.4 avg ARC Devices Limited 15.4 avg

SMA'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 · 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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SMA Solar Technology AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	10.8%
2016	25	10.8%
2017	31	13.4%
2018	28	12.1%
2019	23	10.0%
2020	14	6.1%
2021	14	6.1%
2022	18	7.8%
2023	19	8.2%
2024	17	7.4%
2025partial year	17	7.4%

Which technologies does SMA Solar Technology AG patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 146

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 121

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 111

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 49

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 44

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 35

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 30

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 29

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 21

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 19

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 13

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 11

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 6

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

Top 15 of 44 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,763

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.6 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

SMA Solar Technology AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SMA Solar Technology AG's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 63.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,763 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SMA Solar Technology AG against Juul Labs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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

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