Where does GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. ranks #7,411 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 Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. hold?

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. focus on?

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 19 patents, ranking #113 of 1,034 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +200% 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 Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s patents?

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.8 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 Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG 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 - 44 granted patents across 11 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GD ranks #7,411 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 11 technology areas.

#7,411
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 8.8
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7411 · Foreign Corporation #7,411 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,411/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faurecia Emissions…
CPC-FOCUS F04D · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Germany GmbH (±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 41.1 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 13.1 pts (32%) Velocity 10.9 pts (27%) Breadth 11.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GD Midea Environment… · this assignee

41
Sito Mobile R&D IP · near

41
Korea GAS · near

41
Schneider Electric… · near

41
Swoop IP Holdings · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GD's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 8.8 claims/patent is at or below the 13.1 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 Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 43.2% of grants classified under F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, GD sits between Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Germany GmbH and Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd..

GD's three-year grant acceleration

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Faurecia Emission…

44
Femasys

44
Fertin Pharma A/S

44
Fette Compacting

44
GE Healthcare Bio…

44
Goal Zero

44
Ganymed Pharmaceu…

44
Gemtek Technology

44
GD Midea Environm… ◀

44

What this shows GD holds 44 patents at rank #7,410, 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 #7,410 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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 F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), GD ranks #113 of 1,034 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sito Mobile R&D IP, LLC 41 Swoop IP Holdings LLC 41 Schneider Electric Buildings, LLC 41 Korea GAS Corporation 41

GD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	6.8%
2019	5	11.4%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	3	6.8%
2022	7	15.9%
2023	1	2.3%
2024	10	22.7%
2025partial year	12	27.3%

Which technologies does GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 19

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

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

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #7,411 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GD Midea Environment Appliances MFG Co., Ltd. against Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Germany GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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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