Where does Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai ranks #975 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 Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai hold?

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai holds 450 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's Innovation Score?

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai has an Innovation Score of 68.6 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%).

What technology areas does Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai focus on?

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 115 patents, ranking #14 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's recent grant velocity is +328% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's patents?

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's patents average 12.8 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.

How is the Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai 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

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 450 granted patents across 120 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: F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gree ranks #975 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 450 patents across 120 technology areas.

#975
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.6/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +328%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R975 · Foreign Corporation #975 · 450 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 450 grants
TOP-DECILE #975/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Commonwealth…
CPC-WIDE F24F · 120 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +328% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation (±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 Gree’s 68.6 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 21.1 pts (31%) Velocity 14.8 pts (22%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aristocrat · near

69
Digital Global Systems · near

69
Gree Electric… · this assignee

69
Datang Mobile… · near

69
Globus Medical · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gree's Innovation Score is 68.6/100 (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 Gree?

Each dot is one of Gree’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). Gree’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Gree's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai received 321 grants versus 75 in 2015–2019 (+328% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 87 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 7. Lead class F24F accounts for 25.6% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hgst Netherlands, B.V. (#971) and Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (#979).

Gree's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai moved from 111 to 246 grants (2.22x 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 #164. See the growth leaderboard.

Hgst Netherlands…

453
Toshiba Mitsubish…

452
Delphi

451
Commonwealth Scie…

450
The Mathworks

450
Gree Electric App… ◀

450
Avery Dennison Re…

449
Hologic

449
Rosemount Aerospa…

449

What this shows Gree holds 450 patents at rank #975, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gree

By rank, the assignees closest to #975 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gree, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F24F (Air-conditioning), Gree ranks #14 of 885 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. 69 Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. 69 Digital Global Systems, Inc. 69 Globus Medical, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Gemalto SA 12.8 avg Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Hongfujin Precision Electronics (ZHENGZHOU) Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Shoei Chemical Inc. 12.8 avg

Gree's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 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 · 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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Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	1.6%
2016	7	1.6%
2017	8	1.8%
2018	17	3.8%
2019	36	8.0%
2020	31	6.9%
2021	44	9.8%
2022	79	17.6%
2023	87	19.3%
2024	80	17.8%
2025partial year	54	12.0%

Which technologies does Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 115

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 61

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 51

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 44

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 39

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 32

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 32

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 28

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 23

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 20

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 18

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 17

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 15

Top 15 of 120 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

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai's lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 25.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #975 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. OF Zhuhai against Hgst Netherlands, B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.6/100 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

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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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