Where does Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP ranks #30,771 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 Liquide Industrial U.S. LP hold?

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's Innovation Score?

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP has an Innovation Score of 29.1 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's patents?

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's patents average 11.6 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 Liquide Industrial U.S. LP 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 Liquide Industrial U.S. LP

Q: What technology areas does Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP focus on?

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 2 patents, ranking #672 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Air ranks #30,771 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 17 technology areas.

#30,771
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.1/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30771 · US Corporation #30,771 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #30,771/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aerlyte
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aerlyte, Inc. (±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 29.1 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 7.6 pts (26%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (50%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Air Liquide… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Air's Innovation Score is 29.1/100 (30th percentile 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 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Air's grants concentrate

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Air sits between Aerlyte, Inc. and Akagera Medicines, Inc..

Aerlyte

8
Aeroprobe

8
Afreeze

8
Agar

8
Airborne Internat…

8
Airguard

8
Airhawk Internati…

8
Akagera Medicines

8
Air Liquide Indus… ◀

8

What this shows Air holds 8 patents at rank #30,867, 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 #30,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Air's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	62.5%
2016	3	37.5%

Which technologies does Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 2

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 15 of 17 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 Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #30,771 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP against Aerlyte, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.1/100 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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