Where does Daikin America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Daikin America, Inc. ranks #15,217 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 Daikin America, Inc. hold?

Daikin America, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Daikin America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Daikin America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.2 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Daikin America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Daikin America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +120% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Daikin America, Inc.'s patents?

Daikin America, Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Daikin America, Inc. 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

Daikin America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Daikin America, Inc. focus on?

Daikin America, Inc.'s top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 13 patents, ranking #84 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 15 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Daikin ranks #15,217 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 15 technology areas.

#15,217
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.2/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +120%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15217 · US Corporation #15,217 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,217/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Creative Manufacturing
CPC-FOCUS H01B · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +120% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Creative Manufacturing, 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.

How Daikin’s 45.2 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 10.3 pts (23%) Velocity 10.7 pts (24%) Breadth 13.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Daikin America · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Daikin's Innovation Score is 45.2/100 (top 24% 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 Daikin?

Each dot is one of Daikin’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). Daikin’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Daikin's grants concentrate

Daikin America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 68.4% of grants classified under H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Daikin sits between Creative Manufacturing, LLC and Digital Lumens Incorporated.

Daikin's three-year grant acceleration

Daikin America, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Creative Manufact…

19
Cummins Turbo

19
Daesang

19
Daicel Polymer

19
Dairen Chemical

19
Danieli Automatio…

19
Deepsea Power & L…

19
Digital Lumens In…

19
Daikin America ◀

19

What this shows Daikin holds 19 patents at rank #15,216, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Daikin

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,216 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Daikin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Daikin America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.3%
2017	1	5.3%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	2	10.5%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	2	10.5%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	3	15.8%
2024	4	21.1%
2025partial year	3	15.8%

Which technologies does Daikin America, Inc. patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 13

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 4

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 1

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

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

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

Top 15 of 15 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

Daikin America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Daikin America, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 68.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #15,217 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Daikin America, Inc. against Creative Manufacturing, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.2/100 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

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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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