Where does Carrier Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carrier Corporation ranks #234 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 Carrier Corporation hold?

Carrier Corporation holds 1,756 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 232 technology areas.

What is Carrier Corporation's Innovation Score?

Carrier Corporation has an Innovation Score of 69.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carrier Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carrier Corporation's recent grant velocity is +195% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carrier Corporation's patents?

Carrier Corporation's patents average 14.3 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 Carrier 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

Carrier Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Carrier Corporation focus on?

Carrier Corporation's top technology area is F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems) with 517 patents, ranking #4 of 704 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 232 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,756 granted patents across 232 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: F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carrier ranks #234 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,756 patents across 232 technology areas.

#234
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: +195%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R234 · US Corporation #234 · 1,756 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #234/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ZF Friedrichshafen
CPC-BROAD F25B · 232 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +195% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (±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 Carrier’s 69.0 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 25.8 pts (37%) Velocity 9.7 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carrier · this assignee

69
Shanghai United… · near

69
SoftBank · near

69
Amgen · near

69
Cirrus Logic · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carrier's Innovation Score is 69.0/100 (top 1% 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 Carrier?

Each dot is one of Carrier’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). Carrier’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Carrier's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Carrier Corporation received 1,231 grants versus 417 in 2015–2019 (+195% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 306 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 46. Lead class F25B accounts for 29.4% of the portfolio across 232 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Novartis AG (#230) and Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (#238).

Carrier's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Carrier Corporation moved from 561 to 813 grants (1.45x 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 #488. See the growth leaderboard.

Novartis

1,768
Autonetworks

1,766
Arris Enterprises

1,761
Sumitomo Chemical

1,758
ZF Friedrichshafen

1,756
Carrier ◀

1,756
Continental Autom…

1,748
Signify Holding B…

1,748
Baker Hughes Hold…

1,746

What this shows Carrier holds 1,756 patents at rank #234, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carrier

By rank, the assignees closest to #234 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25B (Refrigeration Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carrier, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25B (Refrigeration Machines), Carrier ranks #4 of 704 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd. 69 SoftBank Corp. 69 Cirrus Logic, Inc. 69 Amgen Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Bragi GmbH 14.3 avg JRD Communication (Shenzhen) Ltd. 14.3 avg AMO Groningen B.V. 14.3 avg SI-Bone Inc. 14.3 avg

Carrier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Carrier Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	46	2.6%
2016	49	2.8%
2017	75	4.3%
2018	104	5.9%
2019	143	8.1%
2020	152	8.7%
2021	266	15.1%
2022	306	17.4%
2023	273	15.5%
2024	234	13.3%
2025partial year	108	6.2%

Which technologies does Carrier Corporation patent most?

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 517

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 264

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 234

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 188

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 169

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 167

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 164

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 132

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 123

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 121

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 114

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 109

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 93

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 80

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 80

Top 15 of 232 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

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

Carrier Corporation's lead technology class is F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems), 29.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25B
Ranked #234 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carrier Corporation against Novartis AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.0/100 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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