Where does Climate LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Climate LLC ranks #1,564 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 Climate LLC hold?

Climate LLC holds 265 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Climate LLC's Innovation Score?

Climate LLC has an Innovation Score of 60.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Climate LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Climate LLC's recent grant velocity is +218% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Climate LLC's patents?

Climate LLC's patents average 19.0 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 Climate 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

Climate LLC

Q: What technology areas does Climate LLC focus on?

Climate LLC's top technology area is A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General) with 147 patents, ranking #5 of 251 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 265 granted patents across 45 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: A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Climate ranks #1,564 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 265 patents across 45 technology areas.

#1,564
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.4/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +218%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1564 · US Corporation #1,564 · 265 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 265 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,564/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adeka
CPC-WIDE A01B · 45 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +218% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adeka 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 Climate’s 60.4 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 19.3 pts (32%) Velocity 5.9 pts (10%) Breadth 23.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anritsu · near

60
Climate · this assignee

60
NAN YA Plastics · near

60
Universiteit Gent · near

60
Institute OF… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Climate's Innovation Score is 60.4/100 (top 3% 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 Climate?

Each dot is one of Climate’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). Climate’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Climate's grants concentrate

Climate LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 55.5% of grants classified under A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (48 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Climate sits between Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc. and AI Incorporated.

Climate's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Climate LLC moved from 120 to 107 grants (0.89x 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 #1,506. See the growth leaderboard.

Sumitomo Electric…

266
Tenneco Automotiv…

266
Thule Sweden AB

266
Adeka

265
Ledvance

265
Precision Planting

265
Wright Medical Te…

265
Climate ◀

265
AI Incorporated

264

What this shows Climate holds 265 patents at rank #1,564, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Climate

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,564 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR Forestry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Climate, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR Forestry), Climate ranks #5 of 251 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Anritsu Company 60 Universiteit Gent 60 NAN YA Plastics Corporation 60 Institute OF Microelectronics OF THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. Ltd. 19.0 avg Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. 19.0 avg Asana, Inc. 19.0 avg University of Maryland 19.0 avg

Climate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Climate LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	0.8%
2017	8	3.0%
2018	14	5.3%
2019	36	13.6%
2020	48	18.1%
2021	36	13.6%
2022	26	9.8%
2023	48	18.1%
2024	33	12.5%
2025partial year	14	5.3%

Which technologies does Climate LLC patent most?

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 147

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 134

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 110

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 100

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 61

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 53

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 52

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 51

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 45

G01W - Meteorology 36

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 34

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 33

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 21

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 20

Top 15 of 45 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Climate LLC's lead technology class is A01B (Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General), 55.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01B
Ranked #1,564 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Climate LLC against Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.4/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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