Where does Fluid Handling LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fluid Handling LLC ranks #6,648 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 Fluid Handling LLC hold?

Fluid Handling LLC holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Fluid Handling LLC's Innovation Score?

Fluid Handling LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fluid Handling LLC focus on?

Fluid Handling LLC's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 25 patents, ranking #84 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fluid Handling LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fluid Handling LLC's recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Fluid Handling LLC's patents?

Fluid Handling LLC's patents average 16.0 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 Fluid Handling 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

Fluid Handling LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 43 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fluid ranks #6,648 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 43 technology areas.

#6,648
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6648 · US Corporation #6,648 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,648/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Damaka
CPC-WIDE F04D · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Damaka, 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 Fluid’s 49.0 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 13.6 pts (28%) Velocity 2.7 pts (5%) Breadth 23.2 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fluid Handling · this assignee

49
Nidec GPM · near

49
Smartsky Networks · near

49
WÄRTSILÄ Finland OY · near

49
Seoyon E-hwa · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fluid's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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 Fluid?

Each dot is one of Fluid’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). Fluid’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Fluid's grants concentrate

Fluid Handling LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Fluid sits between Damaka, Inc. and Ferroelectric Memory GmbH.

Fluid's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fluid Handling LLC moved from 25 to 10 grants (0.40x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Damaka

50
Dyne Therapeutics

50
European Space Ag…

50
F5

50
Focaltech Systems

50
Formosa Plastics

50
FundaciÓ Institut…

50
Ferroelectric Mem…

50
Fluid Handling ◀

50

What this shows Fluid holds 50 patents at rank #6,646, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fluid

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,646 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fluid, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), Fluid ranks #84 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

WÄRTSILÄ Finland OY 49 Nidec GPM GMBH 49 Smartsky Networks LLC 49 Seoyon E-hwa Co., Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Tendyron Corporation 16.0 avg Stichting Imec Nederland 16.0 avg Stratasys Ltd. 16.0 avg DSM IP Assets B.V. 16.0 avg

Fluid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Fluid Handling LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.0%
2016	1	2.0%
2017	3	6.0%
2018	7	14.0%
2019	7	14.0%
2020	9	18.0%
2021	9	18.0%
2022	6	12.0%
2023	2	4.0%
2024	2	4.0%
2025partial year	2	4.0%

Which technologies does Fluid Handling LLC patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 25

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 11

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 10

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

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

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F24D - Domestic- OR Space-heating Systems, e.g. Central Heating SYSTEMS; Domestic Hot-water Supply SYSTEMS; Elements OR Components Therefor 5

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

Top 15 of 43 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

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

Fluid Handling LLC's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #6,648 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fluid Handling LLC against Damaka, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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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