Where does Aavid Thermalloy, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aavid Thermalloy, LLC ranks #19,399 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 Thermalloy, LLC hold?

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's Innovation Score?

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's recent grant velocity is -14% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's patents?

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's patents average 21.5 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 Aavid Thermalloy, LLC 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 Thermalloy, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Aavid Thermalloy, LLC focus on?

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC'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 9 patents, ranking #89 of 801 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 13 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: 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 #19,399 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 13 technology areas.

#19,399
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19399 · US Corporation #19,399 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,399/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aatru Medical
CPC-FOCUS F28D · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aatru Medical, LLC (±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.

How Aavid’s 48.3 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 9.4 pts (19%) Velocity 13.3 pts (28%) Breadth 12.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aavid Thermalloy · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aavid's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 Aavid?

Each dot is one of Aavid’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). Aavid’s own 21.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aavid's grants concentrate

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 64.3% 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 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Aavid sits between AVO Multi-Amp Corporation and Acentium Inc.

Aavid's three-year grant acceleration

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

AVO Multi-amp

14
Axia Acquisition

14
Axion Biosystems

14
Aatru Medical

14
Abominable Labs

14
Acacia Pharma

14
Accelercomm

14
Acentium

14
Aavid Thermalloy ◀

14

What this shows Aavid holds 14 patents at rank #19,444, 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 #19,444 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)

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Aavid Thermalloy, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	3	21.4%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	2	14.3%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	2	14.3%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Aavid Thermalloy, LLC patent most?

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 9

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

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

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC'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), 64.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28D
Ranked #19,399 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aavid Thermalloy, LLC against AVO Multi-Amp Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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

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