Where does Aavid Thermal Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aavid Thermal Corp. ranks #30,716 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 Aavid Thermal Corp. hold?

Aavid Thermal Corp. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Aavid Thermal Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Aavid Thermal Corp. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aavid Thermal Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Aavid Thermal Corp..

What does claim depth mean for Aavid Thermal Corp.'s patents?

Aavid Thermal Corp.'s patents average 23.3 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 Aavid Thermal Corp. 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

Aavid Thermal Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Aavid Thermal Corp. focus on?

Aavid Thermal Corp.'s top technology area is F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aavid ranks #30,716 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 11 technology areas.

#30,716
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 23.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30716 · US Corporation #30,716 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #30,716/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Rapid…
CPC-FOCUS F28D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Rapid Diagnostics International Unlimited Company (±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
Aavid Thermal · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aavid's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Aavid's grants concentrate

Aavid Thermal Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Aavid sits between Axis-shield AS and Accentus Medical Limited.

Aavid's three-year grant acceleration

Aavid Thermal Corp. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Axis-shield AS

8
Axtuator OY

8
Azoteq (PTY)

8
Azure Vault

8
Abbott Rapid Diag…

8
Abilene Christian…

8
Accelerate Labs

8
Accentus Medical

8
Aavid Thermal ◀

8

What this shows Aavid holds 8 patents at rank #30,839, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aavid

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,839 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus)

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

Aavid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Aavid Thermal Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	12.5%
2021	3	37.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2023	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Aavid Thermal Corp. patent most?

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#30,716

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.3 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

Aavid Thermal Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aavid Thermal Corp.'s lead technology class is F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28D
Ranked #30,716 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aavid Thermal Corp. against Axis-shield AS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.