Where does GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. ranks #4,946 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 Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. hold?

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +94% 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 Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patents?

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.2 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 Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. focus on?

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 56 patents, ranking #21 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the GD Midea Heating & Ventilating 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 - 70 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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 #4,946 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 31 technology areas.

#4,946
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4946 · Foreign Corporation #4,946 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,946/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Florida Turbine
CPC-FOCUS F24F · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Florida Turbine 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.

How GD’s 53.5 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 14.7 pts (27%) Velocity 10.6 pts (20%) Breadth 19.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eligo Bioscience · near

54
Embecta · near

54
GD Midea Heating &… · this assignee

54
NextNav · near

54
Osram Sylvania · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GD's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where GD's grants concentrate

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, GD sits between Fluidigm Corporation and Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd..

GD's three-year grant acceleration

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. shows 27 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Fluidigm

70
Fujifilm Dimatix

70
Florida Turbine

70
Fungible

70
Gripple

70
Hermes Microvision

70
Hi-lex

70
Hyundai Heavy Ind…

70
GD Midea Heating… ◀

70

What this shows GD holds 70 patents at rank #4,946, 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 #4,946 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 #21 of 885 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

NextNav, LLC 54 Osram Sylvania Inc. 54 Eligo Bioscience 54 Embecta Corp. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Saipem S.A. 14.2 avg Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. 14.2 avg Syngenta Limited 14.2 avg Genesis Photonics Inc. 14.2 avg

GD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	2.9%
2017	2	2.9%
2018	5	7.1%
2019	9	12.9%
2020	2	2.9%
2021	6	8.6%
2022	10	14.3%
2023	4	5.7%
2024	13	18.6%
2025partial year	17	24.3%

Which technologies does GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 56

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 29

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 14

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 10

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 6

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 5

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Top 15 of 31 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 Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #4,946 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. against Fluidigm Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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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