Where does Broan-NuTone LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Broan-NuTone LLC ranks #2,910 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 Broan-NuTone LLC hold?

Broan-NuTone LLC holds 131 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Broan-NuTone LLC's Innovation Score?

Broan-NuTone LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Broan-NuTone LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Broan-NuTone LLC's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Broan-NuTone LLC's patents?

Broan-NuTone LLC's patents average 11.3 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 Broan-NuTone 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

Broan-NuTone LLC

Q: What technology areas does Broan-NuTone LLC focus on?

Broan-NuTone LLC's top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 48 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 131 granted patents across 27 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: F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Broan-nutone ranks #2,910 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 131 patents across 27 technology areas.

#2,910
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2910 · US Corporation #2,910 · 131 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 131 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,910/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ashley Furniture…
CPC-FOCUS F24F · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ashley Furniture Industries, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broan-NuTone · this assignee

45
Ceres · near

45
Good Tree Internatio… · near

45
PureCircle Sdn Bhd · near

45
Restful Pump · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Broan-nutone's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Broan-nutone's grants concentrate

Broan-NuTone LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 36.6% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (22 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, Broan-nutone sits between Werner Co. and Kurita Water Industries Ltd..

Broan-nutone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Broan-NuTone LLC moved from 45 to 23 grants (0.51x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,668. See the growth leaderboard.

Werner

132
Westrock Packagin…

132
Ashley Furniture…

131
Brandeis Universi…

131
Diversey

131
Epoch

131
Inno-pak

131
Kurita Water Indu…

131
Broan-nutone ◀

131

What this shows Broan-NuTone holds 131 patents at rank #2,910, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Broan-NuTone

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,910 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Broan-NuTone's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Broan-NuTone, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Ceres, Inc. 45 PureCircle Sdn Bhd 45 Good Tree International, Inc. 45 Restful Pump, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.3 here).

Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd. 11.3 avg FCI Americas Technology LLC 11.3 avg Future Motion, Inc. 11.3 avg Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd. 11.3 avg

Broan-nutone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Broan-NuTone LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	8.4%
2016	10	7.6%
2017	18	13.7%
2018	17	13.0%
2019	14	10.7%
2020	22	16.8%
2021	9	6.9%
2022	12	9.2%
2023	7	5.3%
2024	4	3.1%
2025partial year	7	5.3%

Which technologies does Broan-NuTone LLC patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 48

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 15

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 15

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 13

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 8

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 3

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,910

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.4 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

Broan-NuTone LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Broan-NuTone LLC's lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 36.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #2,910 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Broan-NuTone LLC against Werner Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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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