Where does Hussmann Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hussmann Corporation ranks #4,669 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 Hussmann Corporation hold?

Hussmann Corporation holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Hussmann Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hussmann Corporation has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hussmann Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hussmann Corporation's recent grant velocity is -55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Hussmann Corporation's patents?

Hussmann Corporation's patents average 17.1 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 Hussmann Corporation 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

Hussmann Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Hussmann Corporation focus on?

Hussmann Corporation's top technology area is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters) with 55 patents. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 25 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: A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hussmann ranks #4,669 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 25 technology areas.

#4,669
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4669 · US Corporation #4,669 · 75 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,669/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Federal Home Loan…
CPC-FOCUS A47F · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“FREDDIE MAC”) (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Handylab · near

47
Hussmann · this assignee

47
Means Industries · near

47
Solaero · near

47
Aeris Communications · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hussmann's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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.

Where Hussmann's grants concentrate

Hussmann Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Hussmann sits between Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“FREDDIE MAC”) and LDR Medical.

Hussmann's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hussmann Corporation moved from 20 to 12 grants (0.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Federal Home Loan…

75
Grass

75
Hitachi-ge Nuclea…

75
Hefei Reliance Me…

75
Hyundai Steel

75
Invensas Bonding

75
Incept

75
LDR Medical

75
Hussmann ◀

75

What this shows Hussmann holds 75 patents at rank #4,669, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hussmann

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,669 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47F (Special Furniture)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hussmann, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Means Industries, Inc. 47 Solaero Technologies Corp. 47 Handylab, Inc. 47 Aeris Communications, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Bizerba SE & Co. KG 17.1 avg Thales Avionics, Inc. 17.1 avg DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC 17.1 avg LANDIS+GYR Innovations, Inc. 17.1 avg

Hussmann's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Hussmann Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	8.0%
2016	13	17.3%
2017	14	18.7%
2018	6	8.0%
2019	10	13.3%
2020	4	5.3%
2021	6	8.0%
2022	4	5.3%
2023	3	4.0%
2024	5	6.7%
2025partial year	4	5.3%

Which technologies does Hussmann Corporation patent most?

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 55

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

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 24

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 8

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 6

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 5

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 5

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

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 3

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 3

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,669

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hussmann Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hussmann Corporation's lead technology class is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47F
Ranked #4,669 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hussmann Corporation against Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“FREDDIE MAC”), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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