Where does GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. ranks #1,640 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 GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. hold?

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. holds 251 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 70.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +596% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patents?

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. focus on?

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 160 patents, ranking #11 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 251 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GD ranks #1,640 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 251 patents across 44 technology areas.

#1,640
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.4/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: +596%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1640 · Foreign Corporation #1,640 · 251 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 251 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,640/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Citizen
CPC-WIDE F24F · 44 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +596% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Citizen Electronics 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 GD’s 70.4 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 19.1 pts (27%) Velocity 20.0 pts (28%) Breadth 23.5 pts (33%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
SOCIÉTÉ BIC · near

70
GD Midea Air-conditi… · this assignee

70
Adobe · near

70
Magna Mirrors of… · near

70
Kawasaki Motors · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GD's Innovation Score is 70.4/100 (top 1% 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 GD?

Each dot is one of GD’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). GD’s own 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where GD's grants concentrate

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 63.7% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (75 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, GD sits between Verint Systems Inc. and Zscaler, Inc..

GD's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. moved from 38 to 153 grants (4.03x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #46. See the growth leaderboard.

Verint Systems

252
Wayne State Unive…

252
Citizen

251
Datalogic IP Tech…

251
Guardian Glass

251
THE Aerospace

251
UCB Biopharma SRL

251
Zscaler

251
GD Midea Air-cond… ◀

251

What this shows GD holds 251 patents at rank #1,640, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GD

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,640 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F24F (Air-conditioning), GD ranks #11 of 885 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. 70 Adobe Inc. 70 SOCIÉTÉ BIC 70 Kawasaki Motors, Ltd. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Keyence Corporation 13.0 avg Belimo Holding AG 13.0 avg Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH 13.0 avg Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd 13.0 avg

GD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	0.8%
2018	6	2.4%
2019	17	6.8%
2020	8	3.2%
2021	13	5.2%
2022	39	15.5%
2023	39	15.5%
2024	75	29.9%
2025partial year	52	20.7%

Which technologies does GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 160

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 16

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 11

B01D - Separation 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 8

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 8

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

F16H - Gearing 6

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 3

Top 15 of 44 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

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 63.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #1,640 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. against Verint Systems Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.4/100 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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