Where does The Urban Electric Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Urban Electric Company ranks #2,568 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 The Urban Electric Company hold?

The Urban Electric Company holds 152 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is The Urban Electric Company's Innovation Score?

The Urban Electric Company has an Innovation Score of 30.3 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Urban Electric Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Urban Electric Company's recent grant velocity is +22% 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 The Urban Electric Company's patents?

The Urban Electric Company's patents average 1.2 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 The Urban Electric Company 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

The Urban Electric Company

Q: What technology areas does The Urban Electric Company focus on?

The Urban Electric Company's top technology area is B62B (Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges) with 1 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 152 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B62B (Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #2,568 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 152 patents across 3 technology areas.

#2,568
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.3/100): 1.2
avg claims per patent: +22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2568 · US Corporation #2,568 · 152 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 152 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,568/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nevro
CPC-NARROW B62B · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nevro Corp. (±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
Alcon Lensx · near

30
Edsal Manufacturing · near

30
Macauto Industrial · near

30
The Urban Electric · this assignee

30
Altek · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 30.3/100 (34th percentile 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 The's grants concentrate

The Urban Electric Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 0.7% of grants classified under B62B (Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (36 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, The sits between Nevro Corp. and Asia Optical Co., Inc..

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Urban Electric Company moved from 47 to 43 grants (0.92x 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 #1,426. See the growth leaderboard.

Nevro

152
Peregrine Semicon…

152
Sofradim Producti…

152
Sennheiser & KG

152
The Urban Electric ◀

152
AIR Cool Industri…

151
Amada

151
AMS Sensors Singa…

151
Asia Optical

151

What this shows The holds 152 patents at rank #2,568, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,568 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62B (Hand-propelled Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

Edsal Manufacturing Company, LLC 30 Macauto Industrial Co., Ltd. 30 Altek Corporation 30 Alcon Lensx, Inc. 30

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.2 here).

J & D Brush Co., LLC 1.2 avg Suntory Flowers Limited 1.2 avg Shandong Linglong Tire Co., Ltd 1.2 avg Shenzhen Qianhai Patuoxun Network AND Technology Co., Ltd. 1.2 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Urban Electric Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.7%
2017	13	8.6%
2018	36	23.7%
2019	13	8.6%
2020	19	12.5%
2021	15	9.9%
2022	5	3.3%
2023	15	9.9%
2024	23	15.1%
2025partial year	12	7.9%

Which technologies does The Urban Electric Company patent most?

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 1

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 1

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,568

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.3 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

The Urban Electric Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Urban Electric Company's lead technology class is B62B (Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges), 0.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62B
Ranked #2,568 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Urban Electric Company against Nevro Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.3/100 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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