Where does Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC ranks #3,671 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 Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC hold?

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC holds 99 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's Innovation Score?

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC focus on?

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 84 patents, ranking #16 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's recent grant velocity is +394% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's patents?

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's patents average 18.4 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 Air Distribution Technologies IP, 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

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 99 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Air ranks #3,671 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 99 patents across 35 technology areas.

#3,671
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +394%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3671 · US Corporation #3,671 · 99 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 99 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,671/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH A O Smith
CPC-FOCUS F24F · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +394% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: A. O. Smith Corporation (±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 Air’s 56.8 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 15.9 pts (28%) Velocity 8.9 pts (16%) Breadth 20.9 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Air Distribution IP · this assignee

57
E G O Elektro-Geraet… · near

57
Jade Bird Display… · near

57
Kellogg Brown & Root · near

57
The Royal Institutio… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Air's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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 Air?

Each dot is one of Air’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). Air’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Air's grants concentrate

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 84.8% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (20 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Air sits between SAP Portals Israel Ltd and Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc..

Air's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC moved from 39 to 52 grants (1.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

SAP Portals Israel

100
Shenzhen Futaihon…

100
Technische Univer…

100
A O Smith

99
B&R Industrial Au…

99
Bolton Medical

99
Borgwarner Ludwig…

99
Christie Digital…

99
Air Distribution… ◀

99

What this shows Air holds 99 patents at rank #3,671, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Air

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,671 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Air, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F24F (Air-conditioning), Air ranks #16 of 885 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH 57 Kellogg Brown & Root LLC 57 Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited 57 The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Fair Isaac Corporation 18.4 avg Alta Devices, Inc. 18.4 avg Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC 18.4 avg Sierra Wireless, Inc. 18.4 avg

Air's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.0%
2018	3	3.0%
2019	12	12.1%
2020	14	14.1%
2021	13	13.1%
2022	12	12.1%
2023	20	20.2%
2024	20	20.2%
2025partial year	4	4.0%

Which technologies does Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 84

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 13

B01D - Separation 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 7

A62C - Fire-fighting 6

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 6

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 6

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 4

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 2

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 2

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

Top 15 of 35 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

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC's lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 84.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #3,671 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC against SAP Portals Israel Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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

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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

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