Where does Edwards Vacuum LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Edwards Vacuum LLC ranks #9,751 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 Edwards Vacuum LLC hold?

Edwards Vacuum LLC holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Edwards Vacuum LLC's Innovation Score?

Edwards Vacuum LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Edwards Vacuum LLC focus on?

Edwards Vacuum LLC's top technology area is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps) with 16 patents, ranking #74 of 1,184 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Edwards Vacuum LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Edwards Vacuum LLC's recent grant velocity is +525% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Edwards Vacuum LLC's patents?

Edwards Vacuum LLC's patents average 14.4 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 Edwards Vacuum 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

Edwards Vacuum LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Edwards ranks #9,751 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 30 technology areas.

#9,751
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +525%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9751 · US Corporation #9,751 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,751/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edwards Lifesciences…
CPC-FOCUS F04B · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +525% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (±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 51.4 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 12.1 pts (24%) Velocity 11.3 pts (22%) Breadth 19.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Edwards Vacuum · this assignee

51
Peregrine Semiconduc… · near

51
Polestar Performance… · near

51
Unmanned Innovations · near

51
Veea · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Edwards's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 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 Vacuum LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Edwards sits between ETS Express, LLC and Equal1.Labs Inc..

Edwards's three-year grant acceleration

Edwards Vacuum LLC shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

ETS Express

32
ETS Lindgren

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Eurofilters Holdi…

32
Edwards Lifescien…

32
Eko Sport

32
Energy Vault

32
Envision Energy (…

32
Equal1 Labs

32
Edwards Vacuum ◀

32

What this shows Edwards holds 32 patents at rank #9,757, 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 #9,757 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Edwards, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids), Edwards ranks #74 of 1,184 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Unmanned Innovations, Inc. 51 Veea Inc. 51 Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation 51 Polestar Performance AB 51

Edwards's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Edwards Vacuum LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	6.3%
2019	2	6.3%
2020	4	12.5%
2021	4	12.5%
2022	5	15.6%
2023	3	9.4%
2024	9	28.1%
2025partial year	3	9.4%

Which technologies does Edwards Vacuum LLC patent most?

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 16

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 9

B01D - Separation 5

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 30 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 Vacuum LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Edwards Vacuum LLC's lead technology class is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04B
Ranked #9,751 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Edwards Vacuum LLC against ETS Express, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.4/100 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

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.