Where does Engineered Controls International, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Engineered Controls International, LLC ranks #5,836 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 Engineered Controls International, LLC hold?

Engineered Controls International, LLC holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Engineered Controls International, LLC's Innovation Score?

Engineered Controls International, LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Engineered Controls International, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Engineered Controls International, LLC's recent grant velocity is +35% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Engineered Controls International, LLC's patents?

Engineered Controls International, LLC's patents average 15.6 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 Engineered Controls International, 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

Engineered Controls International, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Engineered Controls International, LLC focus on?

Engineered Controls International, LLC's top technology area is 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) with 30 patents, ranking #8 of 408 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 11 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Engineered ranks #5,836 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 11 technology areas.

#5,836
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5836 · US Corporation #5,836 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,836/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dongbu HiTek
CPC-FOCUS F17C · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dongbu HiTek Co., 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 Engineered’s 41.8 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 14.1 pts (34%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 11.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AbbVie Biotechnology · near

42
Gaumard Scientific · near

42
Sanford-Burnham… · near

42
123iv · near

42
Engineered Controls… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Engineered's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Engineered?

Each dot is one of Engineered’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). Engineered’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Engineered's grants concentrate

Engineered Controls International, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 51.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Engineered sits between Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd. and Genetec Inc..

Engineered's three-year grant acceleration

Engineered Controls International, LLC shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Dongbu Hitek

58
Duquesne Universi…

58
Em-tech

58
Echostar UK Holdi…

58
Fuerst Group

58
Flashbay Hong Kong

58
GE Medical System…

58
Genetec

58
Engineered Contro… ◀

58

What this shows Engineered holds 58 patents at rank #5,836, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Engineered

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,836 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F17C (Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Engineered, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F17C (Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed), Engineered ranks #8 of 408 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

123iv, Inc. 42 AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd. 42 Gaumard Scientific Company, Inc. 42 Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Beijing Funate Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. 15.6 avg Graco Children's Products, Inc. 15.6 avg Colopl, Inc. 15.6 avg Cryovac, LLC 15.6 avg

Engineered's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Engineered Controls International, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.4%
2017	2	3.4%
2018	5	8.6%
2019	11	19.0%
2020	4	6.9%
2021	4	6.9%
2022	5	8.6%
2023	7	12.1%
2024	7	12.1%
2025partial year	11	19.0%

Which technologies does Engineered Controls International, LLC patent most?

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 30

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 26

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 7

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 2

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Engineered Controls International, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Engineered Controls International, LLC's lead technology class is 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), 51.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F17C
Ranked #5,836 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Engineered Controls International, LLC against Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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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

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