Is Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited

Q: Where does Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited ranks #39,968 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Edwards ranks #39,968 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 2 technology areas.

#39,968
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.7/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39968 · Foreign Corporation #39,968 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,968/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edgecast
CPC-NARROW F04C · 2 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edgecast 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 Edwards’s 40.7 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 6.7 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (49%) Breadth 5.0 pts (12%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (22%)

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What this shows Edwards's Innovation Score is 40.7/100 (top 35% 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 Edwards?

Each dot is one of Edwards’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). Edwards’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Edwards's grants concentrate

Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Edwards sits between Edgecast Inc. and El Electronics LLC.

Edwards's three-year grant acceleration

Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows Edwards holds 6 patents at rank #40,044, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Edwards

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,044 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Edwards's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	3	50.0%
2024	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 6

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

Top 2 of 2 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

Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #39,968 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Edwards Technologies Vacuum Engineering (Qingdao) Company Limited against Edgecast Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.