Where does Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC ranks #16,810 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 Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC hold?

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC focus on?

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 17 patents, ranking #45 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is +1200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's patents?

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's patents average 21.7 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 Fractal Heatsink Technologies 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

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 6 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fractal ranks #16,810 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 6 technology areas.

#16,810
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: +1200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16810 · US Corporation #16,810 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,810/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Florist Holland B V
CPC-NARROW F28F · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Florist Holland B.V. (±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 Fractal’s 42.3 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 10.0 pts (24%) Velocity 10.7 pts (25%) Breadth 8.7 pts (21%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atlas Copco IAS UK · near

42
Bluescope Steel · near

42
Fractal Heatsink · this assignee

42
Lockheed Martin Energy · near

42
Wuxi Xivi Science… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fractal's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Fractal?

Each dot is one of Fractal’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). Fractal’s own 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fractal's grants concentrate

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Fractal sits between Florist Holland B.V. and GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH.

Fractal's three-year grant acceleration

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC 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.

Florist Holland B…

17
Flower Turbines

17
Foremostco

17
Formfactor Beaver…

17
Framo Engineering…

17
Fujifilm Imaging…

17
Fujiwa Denki

17
GEA Food Solution…

17
Fractal Heatsink ◀

17

What this shows Fractal holds 17 patents at rank #16,812, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fractal

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,812 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fractal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Fractal ranks #45 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited 42 Bluescope Steel Limited 42 Lockheed Martin Energy, LLC 42 Wuxi Xivi Science AND Technology Co., Ltd. 42

Fractal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	5.9%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	3	17.6%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	3	17.6%

Which technologies does Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 17

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 14

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

F28G - Cleaning OF Internal OR External Surfaces OF Heat-exchange OR Heat-transfer Conduits, e.g. Water Tubes OR Boilers 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

Top 6 of 6 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

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC's lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #16,810 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC against Florist Holland B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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

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