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GE Vernova, Inc. is a US-based energy equipment and services company with a patent portfolio spanning gas and steam turbines, turbomachinery and combustion systems, onshore and offshore wind turbines and blades, nuclear reactor design and fuel, electrical grid transmission and distribution equipment, transformers and switchgear, high-voltage direct current systems, power conversion and electrification hardware, grid software and control systems, and carbon capture and alternative fuels. Its filings cover turbine aerodynamics and cooling, blade materials and manufacturing, generator and power electronics design, wind turbine control and load management, small modular reactor architecture, substation and protection equipment, and grid orchestration and monitoring software. The company operates through its Power, Electrification, and Wind segments, and the portfolio carries more than a century of General Electric energy engineering heritage across multiple decades and jurisdictions.
GE Vernova’s patent portfolio comprises 52,146 patents distributed across 15,736 simple families and 16,542 extended families. The portfolio spans 66 jurisdictions, the broadest geographic coverage in this report series, and includes patents associated with power generation equipment, grid and electrification hardware, wind energy, nuclear technology, and related industrial and software systems.
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GE Vernova’s patents span 66 jurisdictions, with the United States accounting for the largest share of filings and grants.
Total Patents: 52,146
The portfolio is distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia, with the United States and the European Patent Office together accounting for the largest concentrations. Notable holdings in Spain and Denmark reflect the wind energy business and its LM Wind Power operations, while the breadth of coverage across 66 jurisdictions reflects the global installed base of power generation and grid equipment.
GE Vernova’s patent portfolio is led by the industrial domain, which captures turbines, generators, wind equipment, and heavy electrical machinery, followed by computer systems and components covering power electronics, control hardware, and instrumentation. The software share reflects grid orchestration, monitoring, and digital energy management, while the residual healthcare, imaging, and semiconductor entries reflect legacy General Electric filings carried into the portfolio at separation.
Note to editor: the RPX export returned an identical assignee list and identical values for both the forward and backward citation blocks. This block is pending a re-pull of the backward-citation assignee data.
The citation data places GE Vernova at the centre of the global power equipment landscape. Beyond its own entities and its General Electric predecessor, the largest citation volumes involve Siemens, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, RTX, Hitachi, ABB, Toshiba, Alstom, and Rolls-Royce, the principal competitors across gas turbines, grid equipment, and heavy electrical machinery.
GE Vernova’s litigation dataset includes 25 patents that have been involved in litigation matters, 9 petitions, 3 reexaminations, and 159 Chinese Patent Reexamination Board proceedings. The dataset also includes 1 active case, 17 inactive cases, 3 appeals, and 293 related parties, the highest related-party count in this report series, reflecting the number of legal entities carried through the General Electric separation.
GE Vernova’s patent portfolio consists of 27,796 originally assigned patents and 24,350 acquired patents, an acquired share of approximately 47% that is by far the highest in this report series. This is a direct consequence of the company’s origin: the portfolio was assembled through the transfer of General Electric energy assets at separation, together with earlier GE acquisitions such as Alstom’s power and grid business, and is therefore recorded largely as acquired from operating companies rather than originally filed.
2024 – Separation from General Electric
GE Vernova was established as an independent public company on 2 April 2024 through the spin-off of General Electric’s portfolio of energy businesses, comprising GE Power, GE Renewable Energy, GE Digital, and GE Energy Financial Services. The separation transferred more than a century of General Electric energy engineering heritage, including the assets acquired through GE’s earlier purchase of Alstom’s power and grid business, which accounts for the portfolio’s unusually high acquired-patent share.
2025 / 2026 – Prolec GE and Robotech Automation
GE Vernova acquired the remaining stake in Prolec GE, its transformer manufacturing joint venture with Xignux, bringing the business fully in-house to expand electrical transformer capacity amid global grid equipment shortages. In 2026 the company announced the acquisition of Robotech Automation to accelerate its robotics and automation capabilities in manufacturing.
GE Vernova’s nuclear business operates through GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture with Hitachi established in 2007. Its BWRX-300 small modular reactor is the most commercially advanced small modular reactor design in the Western market, with the first unit under construction at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site in Canada. In March 2026 the United States and Japan announced a strategic investment valued at up to US$40 billion to deploy BWRX-300 units in Tennessee and Alabama, and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing the Tennessee Valley Authority’s application for a first US unit at Clinch River. Further agreements cover deployment in Poland with Orlen Synthos Green Energy and exploration of opportunities across Southeast Asia.
GE Vernova Inc. is a publicly traded energy company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (GEV) and a component of the S&P 100 and S&P 500. It operates through Power, Electrification, and Wind segments and is a principal beneficiary of rising electricity demand driven by data centre and artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout.
GE Vernova, Inc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States
GE Vernova’s global headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an advanced research centre in Niskayuna, New York supporting work on carbon capture, alternative fuels, grid technologies, and manufacturing automation.
GE Vernova’s patent portfolio includes 52,146 patents across 66 jurisdictions. The portfolio contains patent assets in gas and steam turbines, turbomachinery, wind turbines and blades, nuclear reactor technology including small modular reactors, grid transmission and distribution equipment, power conversion and electrification hardware, and grid software and controls.
The portfolio includes 15,736 simple families, 16,542 extended families, 7 litigated patents, and 1 challenged patent, with 31,323 active assets of which 7,679 are pending applications.
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GE Vernova’s patent portfolio contains 52,146 patents across 66 jurisdictions. The portfolio includes 15,736 simple families and 16,542 extended families.
The industrial domain leads at roughly 54%, covering turbines, generators, and heavy electrical machinery, followed by computer systems and components at about 27% covering power electronics and controls, with consumer goods and software each around 6%.
GE Vernova’s portfolio includes 31,323 active patent assets, consisting of 23,644 active grants and 7,679 active applications.
The United States contains the largest number of GE Vernova patent assets, followed by the European Patent Office, China, Japan, World Intellectual Property Organization filings, and Germany.
The litigation dataset includes 25 patents in litigation, 9 petitions, 3 reexaminations, and 159 Chinese PRB proceedings, alongside 293 related parties.
The portfolio contains 27,796 originally assigned patents and 24,350 acquired patents. The unusually high acquired share of approximately 47% reflects the transfer of General Electric energy assets at the 2024 separation rather than ongoing acquisition activity.
Beyond its own entities and General Electric, the citation data includes significant references involving Siemens, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, RTX, Hitachi, ABB, Toshiba, Alstom, and Rolls-Royce.
Through GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, its BWRX-300 is the most commercially advanced small modular reactor design in the Western market. The first unit is under construction at Darlington in Ontario, and the United States and Japan announced an investment of up to US$40 billion in March 2026 to deploy units in Tennessee and Alabama.
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