Where does Smart Wires Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smart Wires Inc. ranks #4,644 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 Smart Wires Inc. hold?

Smart Wires Inc. holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Smart Wires Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Smart Wires Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.0 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Smart Wires Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smart Wires Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +273% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Smart Wires Inc.'s patents?

Smart Wires Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Smart Wires 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

Smart Wires Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Smart Wires Inc. focus on?

Smart Wires Inc.'s top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 37 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, Smart ranks #4,644 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 37 technology areas.

#4,644
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.0/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +273%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4644 · US Corporation #4,644 · 76 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,644/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scientific Games…
CPC-FOCUS H02J · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +273% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scientific Games International, 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
Ariel Scientific… · near

58
LTS Lohmann… · near

58
NewSouth Innovations… · near

58
Smart Wires · this assignee

58
Wisk Aero · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smart's Innovation Score is 58.0/100 (top 5% 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 Smart's grants concentrate

Smart Wires Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 68.4% 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 2023 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Smart sits between Shanghai Research Institute OF Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec and Toda Kogyo Corp..

Smart's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Smart Wires Inc. moved from 26 to 38 grants (1.46x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shanghai Research…

76
Sphero

76
Sunnybrook Resear…

76
Scientific Games…

76
Sterlite

76
Successfactors

76
Technological Res…

76
Toda Kogyo

76
Smart Wires ◀

76

What this shows Smart holds 76 patents at rank #4,646, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smart

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,646 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Wisk Aero LLC 58 NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited 58 LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG 58 Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Vast Data Ltd. 19.7 avg Nuro, Inc. 19.7 avg Open Text SA ULC 19.7 avg VMware LLC 19.7 avg

Smart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Smart Wires Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.6%
2017	2	2.6%
2018	3	3.9%
2019	8	10.5%
2020	9	11.8%
2021	9	11.8%
2022	15	19.7%
2023	17	22.4%
2024	6	7.9%
2025partial year	5	6.6%

Which technologies does Smart Wires Inc. patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 52

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 46

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 24

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 14

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

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 11

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 5

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

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 3

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 3

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,644

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.0 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

Smart Wires Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Smart Wires Inc.'s lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 68.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #4,644 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smart Wires Inc. against Shanghai Research Institute OF Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.0/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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