Where does Franklin Electric Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Franklin Electric Co., Inc. ranks #8,589 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 Franklin Electric Co., Inc. hold?

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Franklin Electric Co., Inc. focus on?

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s top technology area is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps) with 14 patents, ranking #94 of 1,184 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s patents?

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s patents average 17.4 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 Franklin Electric Co., Inc. 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

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 36 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: F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Franklin ranks #8,589 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 36 technology areas.

#8,589
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8589 · US Corporation #8,589 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,589/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fisher & Paykel…
CPC-FOCUS F04B · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited (±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 Franklin’s 50.5 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 12.6 pts (25%) Velocity 6.3 pts (12%) Breadth 21.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Achronix Semiconductor · near

50
Franklin Electric · this assignee

50
Orthosensor · near

50
Peak Design · near

50
Zing Semiconductor · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Franklin's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Franklin?

Each dot is one of Franklin’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). Franklin’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Franklin's grants concentrate

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 37.8% of grants classified under F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Franklin sits between Fuji OIL Holdings Inc. and Genesys Cloud Services, Inc..

Franklin's three-year grant acceleration

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Fuji OIL Holdings

37
Fuso Pharmaceutic…

37
Fisher & Paykel A…

37
Flow International

37
Fraunhofer USA

37
G & W Electric

37
Green Solution Te…

37
Genesys Cloud Ser…

37
Franklin Electric ◀

37

What this shows Franklin holds 37 patents at rank #8,591, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Franklin

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,591 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Franklin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids), Franklin ranks #94 of 1,184 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation 50 Zing Semiconductor Corporation 50 Peak Design 50 Orthosensor Inc. 50

Franklin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Franklin Electric Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.7%
2016	1	2.7%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	3	8.1%
2020	7	18.9%
2021	6	16.2%
2022	7	18.9%
2023	2	5.4%
2024	6	16.2%
2025partial year	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Franklin Electric Co., Inc. patent most?

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 14

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 12

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 9

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 9

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 4

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

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

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

H04B - Transmission 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

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

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

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

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 36 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

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Franklin Electric Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps), 37.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04B
Ranked #8,589 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Franklin Electric Co., Inc. against Fuji OIL Holdings Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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