Where does Garrett Thermal Systems Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Garrett Thermal Systems Limited ranks #17,686 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Garrett Thermal Systems Limited hold?

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's Innovation Score?

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited has an Innovation Score of 31.5 out of 100 (top 62% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's recent grant velocity is -93% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's patents?

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's patents average 16.6 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 Garrett Thermal Systems Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited

Q: What technology areas does Garrett Thermal Systems Limited focus on?

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's top technology area is G08B (SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: G08B (SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Garrett ranks #17,686 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 11 technology areas.

#17,686
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 62%
by Innovation Score (31.5/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17686 · Foreign Corporation #17,686 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,686/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ganart
CPC-FOCUS G08B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ganart Technologies, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Garrett Thermal Syst… · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Garrett Thermal Systems Limited stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #17,686 of 50,000; Innovation Score 31.5/100 sits in the top 62% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Ganart Technologies, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Garrett Thermal Systems Limited has been granted 16 US utility patents between 2017 and 2020, placing Garrett Thermal Systems Limited at #17,686 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 11 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in G08B (SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS). As a Foreign Corporation, Garrett Thermal Systems Limited is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Garrett sits between Guangdong Giwee Technology Co. Ltd. (16 patents, rank #17,694) and Genxcomm, Inc. (16 patents, rank #17,702) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 31.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 1 grants, compared with 15 in the 2015–2019 window, a -93% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Garrett Thermal Systems Limited's 16.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 11 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Guangdong Giwee T…

16
Guangdong Polytec…

16
Guangdong SYMA Mo…

16
Ganart

16
Gartneriet PKM A/S

16
Gehring +

16
Gelliner

16
Genxcomm

16
Garrett Thermal S… ◀

16

What this shows Garrett holds 16 patents at rank #17,698, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Garrett

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,698 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Garrett's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 62% higher than 38% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Garrett Thermal Systems Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	31.3%
2018	5	31.3%
2019	5	31.3%
2020	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Garrett Thermal Systems Limited patent most?

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 16

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 13

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 3

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 2

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 2

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 2

B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL 1

B03C - MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS 1

B01D - SEPARATION 1

H10D - INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 1

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#17,686

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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