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Patent Landscape · Floating Offshore WindFloating Offshore Wind Patents: Who Leads and Where Filing Is Headed
- 29.5% concentration. The top 5 assignees hold 693 of 2,346 records in scope — a real lead, not a fragmented field.
- Filing has cooled from its 2022 peak. After 253 records in 2022, filings ran 220 in 2021 to 172 in 2024, a -22% move over that span, before the most recent partial years understate the true rate.
- Marine engineering classes sit alongside turbine control. B63B ships & marine vessels appears on 40.3% of records, second only to F03D wind motors at 69.5%, showing hull and mooring claims are as contested as control claims.
2,346
Published Records
30%
Top-5 Share of All Records
-22%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
US
Leading Jurisdiction
Filing growth compares 2021 (220 records) with 2024 (172) — 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 2,346 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
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Overview
What the floating offshore wind patent record actually shows
Floating offshore wind sits at the intersection of two mature engineering disciplines: wind turbine control and marine structural design. The search set behind this page — 2,346 published records filed between 2015 and the current data cut-off — captures both halves, from blade pitch and rotor torque control down to hull stabilisation and mooring line arrangement. That dual character shows up directly in the technology composition: F03D (wind motors) and B63B (ships and marine vessels) are the two largest IPC subclasses by a wide margin over everything else.
Filing activity rose steadily through the late 2010s, peaked in 2022, and has since eased from that high — a pattern consistent with an industry that moved from demonstration projects toward pre-commercial arrays and is now digesting a first wave of core claims. Because publication trails filing by roughly 18 months, the most recent one or two years in any chart will always look thinner than they eventually turn out to be; the reliable read on direction stops at 2024.
Filing activity and technology mix, 2015 to present
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
The Data
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 2,346-record set: how filing volume has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses carry the claim density.
A 2022 peak followed by a cooling, not a collapse
Filings climbed from 143 in 2017 to a peak of 253 in 2022, then eased to 172 by 2024 (-22% from 2021's 220) — a genuine pullback from the peak, but 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in under the usual publication lag and should not be read as the field slowing further.
Turbine control and marine engineering dominate; wireless and antenna claims are a distinct minority
F03D (wind motors) touches 69.5% of the 2,346 records and B63B (marine vessels) 40.3%, confirming floating wind patents are as much about platform engineering as about turbine control; F03B, H04B, H04W, E02B, H01Q and H02G each cover a single-digit-to-low-teens share, marking narrower but still active fronts in hydraulics, communications and cabling.
Shares are the percentage of the 2,346 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 Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.
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The most-cited records anchor mooring and platform design
Representative Recent Filing
Floating wind turbine control below rated wind speed
EQUINOR ENERGY AS
A motion controller for a floating wind turbine including a number of rotor blades is provided. The motion controller is arranged to adjust the blade pitch of each rotor blade when the floating wind turbine is operating in winds below the rated wind speed so as to create a net force that damps a surge motion of the floating wind turbine. Also provided is a method of damping the motion of a floating wind turbine and a wind turbine having such a motion controller.Filed by Equinor Energy AS, published 2025-06-17 as US12331723B2 — illustrates how control claims now target platform motion damping rather than turbine output alone.
Highest-cited records in the floating offshore wind set
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20110037264A1 | Column-stabilized offshore platform with water-entrapment plates and asymmetric mooring system for support of… | 228 |
| 2 | WO2009131826A2 | Column-stabilized offshore platform with water-entrapment plates and asymmetric mooring system for support of… | 202 |
| 3 | US20180041270A1 | Beamformer for end-to-end beamforming communications system | 136 |
| 4 | US20110074155A1 | Floating offshore wind farm, a floating offshore wind turbine and a method for positioning a floating offshor… | 115 |
| 5 | US8471396B2 | Column-stabilized offshore platform with water-entrapment plates and asymmetric mooring system for support of… | 115 |
| 6 | WO2020167137A1 | Wind energy power plant and method of construction | 103 |
| 7 | US20100219645A1 | Power generation assemblies and apparatus | 100 |
| 8 | WO2017124004A1 | Techniques for employing access node clusters in end-to-end beamforming | 98 |
| 9 | US7293960B2 | Power generation assemblies, and apparatus for use therewith | 95 |
| 10 | US20110148115A1 | Deep offshore floating wind turbine and method of deep offshore floating wind turbine assembly, transportatio… | 89 |
Citation counts reward older, foundational filings and should be read as a signal of influence on the field, not of current commercial relevance.
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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Citation counts and representative records. Derived from a Patsnap search on Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
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What the numbers mean for a filing decision
Three findings that should shape where a new application gets drafted and where it competes with dense prior art.
Concentration
29.5%
of 2,346 records held by top 5
The leader board is real, not diffuse
The top 5 assignees hold 693 of the 2,346 records in scope, and the top 10 extend that to 39.2% (920 records). That is a genuine lead position rather than a crowded field of equals, meaning a new entrant is filing against a small number of well-established portfolios rather than hundreds of scattered competitors.
Based on the 100-company ranked assignee list.
Filing trend
-22%
2021 to 2024 (220 to 172 records)
Volume has pulled back from its 2022 peak
After climbing from 143 records in 2017 to a peak of 253 in 2022, filing volume fell to 172 by 2024. That is a real pullback in a technology that had a sharp run-up, though it says nothing about whether the pullback continues — 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete under the normal publication lag.
2024 is the most recent year treated as complete.
Technology mix
40.3%
of records also carry B63B (marine vessels)
Hull and mooring claims rival turbine-control claims
F03D wind-motor claims appear on 69.5% of records, but B63B marine-vessel claims are close behind on 40.3% — far ahead of the next largest class. A drafting strategy that only reads turbine control art and ignores marine hull and mooring prior art is reading half the relevant field.
Shares are of the same 2,346-record base and overlap, since records can carry multiple classes.
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Co-filing is rare and concentrated
| Assignee | Co-assignee | Shared families |
|---|---|---|
| Hitachi, Ltd. | Toda Corporation | 18 |
| Hitachi, Ltd. | Kyoto University | 18 |
| Hywind AS | SKAARE BJRN | 4 |
| University of Maine | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC | 3 |
| Principle Power Inc | RODDIER DOMINIQUE | 2 |
| Principle Power Inc | CERMELLI CHRISTIAN | 2 |
| Hywind AS | NIELSEN FINN GUNNAR | 2 |
| Hywind AS | JACKSON ROBERT PATRICK | 2 |
Only 9 co-assignee pairs appear across the set, with the strongest pairings linked to Hitachi's joint filings with Toda Corporation and Kyoto University — evidence that most floating wind IP is developed and held by a single assignee rather than through joint ventures.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. Derived from a Patsnap search on Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Players
Who is filing, and where the field is still open
The ranked leaders combine established offshore wind OEMs, platform-technology specialists and energy majors; momentum in the most recent year has cooled across nearly all of them, consistent with the broader publication lag rather than a genuine stop in R&D.
Leader
210
records
A clear top position
The leading assignee holds 210 records, well ahead of fifth place at 81 and tenth place at 33 — a steep drop-off that marks a genuine leader rather than a cluster of near-equals at the top.
Counted in the same 2,346-record base.
Mid-field
33
records at tenth place
A meaningful second tier
Between fifth place (81 records) and tenth place (33 records) sits a group of assignees with sustained but smaller portfolios, spanning turbine OEMs, platform designers and research institutions rather than a single dominant type of player.
Based on the 100-company ranked list.
Momentum
0
records in the latest year for several top filers
Recent-year counts have gone quiet across the board
Several of the largest historical filers show zero records in the latest year and -100% year-on-year, but this tracks the roughly 18-month publication lag rather than a real halt — recent filings from these assignees are most likely still working through the pipeline.
Read alongside the 2024 filing figures, the last complete year.
Filing momentum by assignee, most recent complete years
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy | 0 | -100% |
| Viasat Inc | 0 | -100% |
| Principle Power Inc | 0 | -100% |
| Equinor Energy AS | 0 | — |
| Hywind AS | 0 | — |
| Vestas Wind Systems AS | 0 | — |
| MHI Vestas Offshore Wind AS | 0 | — |
| Aker Solutions AS | 0 | -100% |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
What's Next
Where to take this from here
The dataset points to a field with an established leadership tier and a technology mix split between turbine control and marine engineering. The next step is testing a specific claim or filing strategy against that backdrop.
Check freedom-to-operate against the top holders
With 29.5% of records held by five assignees and platform-stabilisation art running back over a decade, a freedom-to-operate check against the highest-cited mooring and platform patents should come before drafting new control claims.
Run a freedom-to-operate searchMap the marine-engineering half of the field
B63B marine-vessel claims cover 40.3% of records — nearly as much as turbine control — so a technology map that treats floating wind as only a turbine-control problem will miss a large share of the relevant prior art.
Build a full technology mapWatch for the 2025-2026 filing catch-up
Recent-year counts look low across nearly every leading assignee purely because of publication lag; revisit the trend in six to twelve months before drawing conclusions about slowing R&D.
Track filing activity over timeSource: Patsnap Eureka. Forward-looking reading of the same dataset. Derived from a Patsnap search on Floating Offshore Wind Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
FAQ
Common questions on the floating offshore wind patent landscape
The leading assignee in this dataset holds 210 of the 2,346 records in scope, well ahead of the fifth-ranked filer at 81 and the tenth-ranked filer at 33. That gap indicates a genuine leadership position rather than a fragmented field of near-equal competitors. The ranked list covers 100 companies drawn from the full record set, spanning established offshore wind OEMs, platform-technology developers and research institutions.
Filing volume grew from 143 records in 2017 to a peak of 253 in 2022, then declined to 172 by 2024, a -22% move from 2021's 220. That is a real pullback from the peak year rather than steady growth, but it should not be read as the field cooling further, since 2025 and 2026 counts are still incomplete under the normal 18-month publication lag. The reliable trend read currently stops at 2024.
The two largest IPC subclasses are F03D (wind motors, covering turbine design and control) at 69.5% of the 2,346 records, and B63B (ships and marine vessels, covering platform hulls and marine structures) at 40.3%. Smaller but active areas include F03B hydraulic machines, H04B and H04W communications, E02B waterway engineering, H01Q antennas and H02G cable installation, each in the single-digit-to-low-teens percentage range. Because a single record can carry multiple classes, these shares add up to more than 100%.
US12331723B2, filed by Equinor Energy AS and published 2025-06-17, covers a motion controller that adjusts individual rotor-blade pitch below rated wind speed specifically to damp surge motion of a floating platform, plus the corresponding control method. It is narrower than a general pitch-control patent: it targets platform motion damping as the control objective, not turbine output optimisation. Anyone building below-rated-speed pitch strategies for floating (rather than fixed-bottom) turbines should review this claim scope closely before finalising a control algorithm.
Relative to the dense claim coverage in core turbine control (F03D) and marine hull design (B63B), classes like H04W wireless networks, H01Q antennas and H02G power cabling show comparatively thin coverage — each under 8% of the 2,346 records. That suggests condition-monitoring communications, antenna integration on floating substructures, and dynamic power-cable routing for moving platforms are less crowded than turbine-control or mooring claims. These are not unclaimed areas, but the claim density is materially lower than in the two dominant classes.
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