Where does Bradford White Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bradford White Corporation ranks #34,573 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 Bradford White Corporation hold?

Bradford White Corporation holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Bradford White Corporation's Innovation Score?

Bradford White Corporation has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bradford White Corporation focus on?

Bradford White Corporation's top technology area is F24H (Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General) with 6 patents, ranking #40 of 303 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bradford White Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bradford White Corporation's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bradford White Corporation's patents?

Bradford White Corporation's patents average 16.3 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 Bradford White Corporation 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

Bradford White Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F24H (Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bradford ranks #34,573 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 8 technology areas.

#34,573
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34573 · US Corporation #34,573 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,573/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BoxLock
CPC-NARROW F24H · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BoxLock, 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 Bradford’s 33.6 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 7.2 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 10.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bradford White · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bradford's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (45th 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 Bradford?

Each dot is one of Bradford’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). Bradford’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bradford's grants concentrate

Bradford White Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under F24H (Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bradford sits between BoxLock, Inc. and Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, B.V..

Bradford's three-year grant acceleration

Bradford White Corporation shows 2 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.

Boxlock

7
Boyce

7
Boyer Anderson

7
Boyle Energy Serv…

7
Brainquake

7
Branchpoint

7
Breaching

7
Bridgestone Mobil…

7
Bradford White ◀

7

What this shows Bradford holds 7 patents at rank #34,589, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bradford

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,589 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24H (Fluid Heaters)

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

Bradford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bradford White Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	14.3%
2019	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2022	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Bradford White Corporation patent most?

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

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

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

F24D - Domestic- OR Space-heating Systems, e.g. Central Heating SYSTEMS; Domestic Hot-water Supply SYSTEMS; Elements OR Components Therefor 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Bradford White Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bradford White Corporation's lead technology class is F24H (Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24H
Ranked #34,573 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bradford White Corporation against BoxLock, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.6/100 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

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