Where does Vestas Wind Systems A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vestas Wind Systems A/S ranks #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 Vestas Wind Systems A/S hold?

Vestas Wind Systems A/S holds 1,179 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 141 technology areas.

What is Vestas Wind Systems A/S's Innovation Score?

Vestas Wind Systems A/S has an Innovation Score of 68.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vestas Wind Systems A/S focus on?

Vestas Wind Systems A/S's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 1,070 patents, ranking #10 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 141 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vestas Wind Systems A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vestas Wind Systems A/S's recent grant velocity is +44% 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 Vestas Wind Systems A/S's patents?

Vestas Wind Systems A/S's patents average 17.5 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 Vestas Wind Systems A/S 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

Vestas Wind Systems A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,179 granted patents across 141 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, Vestas ranks #368 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,179 patents across 141 technology areas.

#368
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.9/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R368 · Foreign Corporation #368 · 1,179 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #368/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cardiac Pacemakers
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 141 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (±1 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 Vestas’s 68.9 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 24.4 pts (35%) Velocity 9.0 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Festool · near

69
Angel · near

69
Vestas Wind Systems… · this assignee

69
Zhejiang Geely… · near

69
Proterial · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vestas's Innovation Score is 68.9/100 (top 1% 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 Vestas?

Each dot is one of Vestas’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). Vestas’s own 17.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Vestas's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Vestas Wind Systems A/S received 639 grants versus 444 in 2015–2019 (+44% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 164 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 80. Lead class Y02E accounts for 90.8% of the portfolio across 141 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Canon Medical Systems Corporation (#364) and Smith & Nephew, Inc. (#372).

Vestas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vestas Wind Systems A/S moved from 313 to 422 grants (1.35x 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 #581. See the growth leaderboard.

Canon Medical Sys…

1,191
Cummins

1,191
HRL Laboratories

1,188
UOP

1,188
Vestas Wind Syste… ◀

1,179
Cardiac Pacemakers

1,178
Karsten Manufactu…

1,177
Kla-tencor

1,173
Smith & Nephew

1,172

What this shows Vestas holds 1,179 patents at rank #368, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vestas

By rank, the assignees closest to #368 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vestas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Vestas ranks #10 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Angel Co., Ltd. 69 Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. 69 Festool GMBH 69 Proterial, Ltd. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Merck Patent GmbH 17.5 avg Arctic Cat Inc. 17.5 avg E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH 17.5 avg ST. Jude Medical International Holding S.Á R.L. 17.5 avg

Vestas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Vestas Wind Systems A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	83	7.0%
2016	80	6.8%
2017	98	8.3%
2018	87	7.4%
2019	96	8.1%
2020	95	8.1%
2021	122	10.3%
2022	158	13.4%
2023	100	8.5%
2024	164	13.9%
2025partial year	96	8.1%

Which technologies does Vestas Wind Systems A/S patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1,070

F03D - Wind Motors 1,044

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 859

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 232

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 186

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 103

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 99

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 96

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 85

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 67

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 62

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 58

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 50

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 45

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 44

Top 15 of 141 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

Vestas Wind Systems A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vestas Wind Systems A/S's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 90.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #368 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vestas Wind Systems A/S against Canon Medical Systems Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.9/100 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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