Where does Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland ranks #11,452 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 Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland hold?

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's Innovation Score?

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland has an Innovation Score of 40.7 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's recent grant velocity is -96% 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 Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's patents?

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's patents average 16.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland

Q: What technology areas does Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland focus on?

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 13 patents, ranking #1,009 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland 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 PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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, Stichting ranks #11,452 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 29 technology areas.

#11,452
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.7/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -96%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11452 · Foreign Corporation #11,452 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,452/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saban Ventures PTY
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -96% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saban Ventures PTY Limited (±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 Stichting’s 40.7 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 11.5 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 19.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Furcifer · near

41
Horizon International · near

41
Ipsen Pharma S · near

41
Stichting Energieond… · this assignee

41
University OF… · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stichting's Innovation Score is 40.7/100 (top 35% 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 Stichting?

Each dot is one of Stichting’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). Stichting’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stichting's grants concentrate

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 48.1% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Stichting sits between Solar Frontier K.K. and Sarong Societa' Per Azioni.

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27
Solmetex

27
Source Global PBC

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Stat Medical Devi…

27
Sugarfina

27
Summit ESP

27
Saban Ventures PTY

27
Sarong Societa' P…

27
Stichting Energie… ◀

27

What this shows Stichting holds 27 patents at rank #11,432, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stichting

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,432 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stichting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Stichting ranks #1,009 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

University OF Central Oklahoma 41 Furcifer Inc. 41 Ipsen Pharma S.A.S. 41 Horizon International Inc. 41

Stichting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	22.2%
2016	4	14.8%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	6	22.2%
2019	6	22.2%
2021	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 8

B01D - Separation 7

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 2

F03D - Wind Motors 2

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 2

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

Top 15 of 29 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

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 48.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #11,452 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland against Solar Frontier K.K., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.7/100 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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