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Smart Grid & Energy SystemsAdvanced Metering Infrastructure Human-Machine Interface Patents
- Filing has cooled since its 2017 peak. 23 filings that year against a flat-to-declining midpoint of 20 in 2022, suggesting the core interface claim space is largely staked out rather than still forming.
- Digital transmission and wireless dominate the IPC mix. H04L (361 records) and H04W (278) outweigh the metering-specific G01D class (208), showing most invention effort sits in the communications layer around the meter, not the display itself.
- No assignee shows positive momentum in the latest year. Every tracked assignee, including established names, logged zero filings in the most recent year — a pattern consistent with publication lag but also with a maturing, consolidated field.
875
Published Records
57%
Top-5 Share of All Records
+120%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
US
Leading Jurisdiction
Filing growth compares 2021 (5 records) with 2024 (11) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 875 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
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Field Overview
What this patent set covers
This landscape covers patent families at the intersection of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and the human-facing side of that infrastructure: in-home displays, consumer energy interfaces and meter user-interface claims. The search spans 2015 through the 2026-07-31 data cut-off and captures 875 published records treated as 875 distinct families for ranking purposes.
The technology composition skews communications-heavy: digital information transmission and wireless networking subclasses outnumber the general measuring and recording class that would map most directly to the physical meter or display hardware. That split matters for freedom-to-operate work, because it means a large share of the claim density sits in how data reaches the interface, not in the interface itself.
Top assignees by patent family count
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on Advanced Metering Infrastructure Human-Machine Interface covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
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Filing & Classification Data
Trend and technology composition
The filing curve and IPC spread below frame where invention effort has concentrated and whether that effort is still growing.
Filing trend, 2017-2026
Filings peaked at 23 in 2017 and sat at 20 by the 2022 midpoint, a flat-to-declining pattern rather than sustained growth; the most recent years are understated because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months.
Technology composition by IPC subclass
H04L (361) and H04W (278) lead, followed by H02J power/grid systems (211) and G01D measuring and recording (208); G06F, G05B, G06Q and H04B each carry more than 120 records, showing the field is genuinely cross-disciplinary rather than concentrated in one subclass.
Shares are the percentage of the 875 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Advanced Metering Infrastructure Human-Machine Interface covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.
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Most-cited and representative filings
Representative Filing
Apparatus and method for managing power equipment in advanced metering infrastructure network
ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Provided is an apparatus and method for managing a power equipment in an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network included in a smart grid network. According to an aspect of the present invention, an apparatus and method for managing a power equipment in an AMI network may provide a load control environment enabling a power equipment to declare an opt-out when another power equipment declares an opt-out by providing a list of power equipments included in a load control group in response to a power equipment declaring an opt-out of the load control group so as to process an opt-out of a power equipment selected from the list.Filed by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, published 2012-06-21 as US20120159211A1.
Highest-cited records in this corpus
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20110106328A1 | Energy optimization system | 363 |
| 2 | US20090281674A1 | Method and system for managing a power grid | 326 |
| 3 | US8359124B2 | Energy optimization system | 313 |
| 4 | US20090281673A1 | Method and system for managing a power grid | 301 |
| 5 | US20090135836A1 | Collector device and system utilizing standardized utility metering protocol | 256 |
| 6 | US20110288692A1 | Malicious attack detection and analysis | 253 |
| 7 | US20140277788A1 | System, method, and data packets for messaging for electric power grid elements over a secure internet protoc… | 245 |
| 8 | US20110208366A1 | Utility grid command filter system | 226 |
| 9 | US20100152910A1 | Power grid outage and fault condition management | 212 |
| 10 | US20100262313A1 | System and method for energy consumption management | 195 |
Citation counts reflect influence within this searched corpus and skew toward older records; they are not a measure of current commercial importance.
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What the numbers signal
Three figures from this dataset carry direct implications for anyone deciding where to file or where to challenge existing claims.
Filing Trajectory
23 → 0
peak year to latest year
Growth has stalled, not accelerated
The 2017 peak of 23 filings has not been matched since, and the 2022 midpoint of 20 confirms a flat trend rather than a dip before a rebound. Combined with the publication lag, this points to a field where the foundational claims are largely in place.
Filing trend data
Classification Spread
361 vs 208
H04L records vs G01D records
Communications claims outweigh metering-hardware claims
Digital transmission (H04L) records nearly double general measuring and recording (G01D) records, indicating that most recent invention activity addresses how meter data moves and is processed rather than the physical display or sensor.
IPC composition data
Assignee Momentum
0
latest-year filings across tracked assignees
No assignee is currently accelerating
Every major assignee tracked, across both established metering vendors and technology integrators, shows zero filings in the latest year. Part of this reflects publication lag, but the consistency across so many assignees also fits a consolidating field.
Recent-year momentum data
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Competitive Landscape
Who holds the claim space
Filing activity concentrates among a mix of metering specialists and technology integrators, with co-assignee pairs pointing to specific commercial partnerships rather than broad industry consortia.
Receiving Office Spread
286 US filings
vs 123 at EPO
US-centred filing with meaningful EPO and Australia coverage
The United States accounts for the largest share of receiving-office activity, with Europe, Australia and Canada each carrying a sizeable secondary share. WIPO PCT filings (60) suggest a subset of applicants are pursuing broader international protection.
Receiving office data
Co-Assignee Pairs
10 pairs
strongest pair at 7 joint filings
Filing partnerships are narrow and specific
Only ten co-assignee pairs appear in this corpus, and the strongest pairs top out at seven joint filings each. This points to isolated collaborations, such as a technology integrator working with a named inventor or a metering firm partnering with a connectivity specialist, rather than an industry-wide joint-development pattern.
Co-assignee pair data
Citation Concentration
363 citations
top-cited record
Influence sits with early energy-optimization filings
The most-cited records in this corpus are energy optimization and power-grid management filings rather than display or interface patents specifically, a reminder that citation counts here favour older, foundational filings over current interface-specific innovation.
Most-cited records data
Recent-year filing momentum by assignee
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Accenture Global Services Limited | 0 | — |
| Itron, Inc. | 0 | — |
| Texas Instruments Incorporated | 0 | -100% |
| Freestyle Technology Holdings Limited | 0 | — |
| Itron Global SARL | 0 | — |
| Landis+Gyr Innovations Limited | 0 | — |
| CAUSAM ENERGY INC | 0 | -100% |
| Kraken Technologies Limited | 0 | -100% |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on Advanced Metering Infrastructure Human-Machine Interface covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
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Where to take this analysis
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The most-cited records concentrate around energy optimization and power-grid management rather than display UI specifically; confirm whether current interface designs read on those broader system claims.
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Sub-areas like adaptive display personalization and cross-protocol UI translation show thinner claim density than the core communications classes, which may leave room for defensible new filings.
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Common questions on this landscape
In this landscape, it means a filing whose claims combine AMI or smart-meter functionality with a consumer-facing or meter-facing interface element, such as an in-home display, a consumer energy interface, or a meter user interface. The search deliberately pairs AMI/smart-meter terms with interface-specific terms so that pure back-end grid-management patents without a user-facing component are excluded. This is why the IPC composition still shows a heavy communications-class presence: the interface depends on data transport claims even when the visible innovation is the display.
Because delivering usable information to a human interface requires solving data transmission and network problems before the display or interaction layer can function, and patent applicants tend to claim that transport and processing pipeline alongside the interface. H04L (361 records) and H04W (278) both exceed G01D (208) in this corpus. For anyone designing a new interface feature, this means a meaningful share of prior art risk sits in how data reaches the device, not just in the display design itself.
The filing trend does not show sustained growth: 2017 was the peak year at 23 filings, and the 2022 midpoint sat at 20, indicating a flat-to-declining pattern rather than acceleration. Recent years are understated because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so some additional 2024-2026 filings will surface later. Even accounting for that lag, the absence of a clear upward trend suggests the core claim territory in this niche is largely established rather than rapidly expanding.
Recent-year momentum data in this corpus shows every tracked assignee, including established metering and technology integration firms, logged zero filings in the latest year, which limits how confidently current leadership can be assessed from momentum alone. Historical filing volume and co-assignee activity are better indicators of established position than the most recent single year. Reviewing the assignee ranking table alongside the co-assignee pairs gives a fuller picture of which organisations have built sustained portfolios versus those with isolated collaborative filings.
Based on the IPC and claim density patterns in this corpus, thinner activity appears around adaptive or personalized display behaviour, voice-based meter data queries, low-bandwidth outage visualization, and cross-protocol translation layers that let a single interface work across different metering communication standards. These branches sit adjacent to the dense H04L, H04W and G01D classes but are not saturated in the same way. Any filing strategy in these areas should still be checked against the high-citation energy-optimization patents, since broad system-level claims there may extend further than their titles suggest.
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