Where does Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC ranks #2,607 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 Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC hold?

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC holds 149 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's Innovation Score?

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC has an Innovation Score of 53.6 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 Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's recent grant velocity is +93% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's patents?

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's patents average 16.5 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 Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC 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 US Corporation

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC

Q: What technology areas does Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC focus on?

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's top technology area is F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems) with 115 patents, ranking #12 of 704 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 149 granted patents across 33 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: F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heatcraft ranks #2,607 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 149 patents across 33 technology areas.

#2,607
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2607 · US Corporation #2,607 · 149 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 149 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,607/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH American Sterilizer
CPC-FOCUS F25B · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: American Sterilizer Company (±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 Heatcraft’s 53.6 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 17.3 pts (32%) Velocity 6.1 pts (11%) Breadth 20.3 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Micro-fabri… · near

54
Bayer Pharma… · near

54
Halozyme · near

54
Heatcraft Refrigerat… · this assignee

54
Oxylabs UAB · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heatcraft's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (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 Heatcraft?

Each dot is one of Heatcraft’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). Heatcraft’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Heatcraft's grants concentrate

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 77.2% of grants classified under F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Heatcraft sits between Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB and Movandi Corporation.

Heatcraft's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC moved from 56 to 51 grants (0.91x 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 #1,443. See the growth leaderboard.

Atlas Copco Indus…

149
AUO

149
American Steriliz…

149
Dürr Systems

149
Innovation

149
KOH Young Technol…

149
LTS Lohmann Thera…

149
Movandi

149
Heatcraft Refrige… ◀

149

What this shows Heatcraft holds 149 patents at rank #2,607, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heatcraft

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,607 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25B (Refrigeration Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heatcraft, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25B (Refrigeration Machines), Heatcraft ranks #12 of 704 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft 54 Halozyme, Inc. 54 Oxylabs, UAB 54 Advanced Micro-fabrication Equipment Inc. China 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Vertiv Corporation 16.5 avg Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited 16.5 avg Sony Europe Limited 16.5 avg EndoChoice, Inc. 16.5 avg

Heatcraft'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 · 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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Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.0%
2016	1	0.7%
2017	12	8.1%
2018	12	8.1%
2019	18	12.1%
2020	21	14.1%
2021	17	11.4%
2022	17	11.4%
2023	19	12.8%
2024	15	10.1%
2025partial year	14	9.4%

Which technologies does Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC patent most?

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 115

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 26

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 23

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 16

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 12

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 11

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 11

F28B - Steam OR Vapour Condensers 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 4

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

F28C - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media Come Into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction 3

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 3

F28G - Cleaning OF Internal OR External Surfaces OF Heat-exchange OR Heat-transfer Conduits, e.g. Water Tubes OR Boilers 2

Top 15 of 33 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

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC's lead technology class is F25B (Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems), 77.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25B
Ranked #2,607 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC against Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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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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