Where does Inductotherm Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inductotherm Corp. ranks #8,611 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 Inductotherm Corp. hold?

Inductotherm Corp. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Inductotherm Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Inductotherm Corp. has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Inductotherm Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Inductotherm Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Inductotherm Corp.'s patents?

Inductotherm Corp.'s patents average 14.4 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 Inductotherm Corp. 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

Inductotherm Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Inductotherm Corp. focus on?

Inductotherm Corp.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 21 patents, ranking #176 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 20 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Inductotherm ranks #8,611 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 20 technology areas.

#8,611
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8611 · US Corporation #8,611 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,611/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Idex Biometrics ASA
CPC-FOCUS H05B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Idex Biometrics ASA (±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 Inductotherm’s 42.7 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 12.6 pts (30%) Velocity 5.7 pts (13%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Board of Supervisors… · near

43
Inductotherm · this assignee

43
MD Healthcare · near

43
SAN Fang Chemical… · near

43
THE Walter AND… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Inductotherm's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Inductotherm?

Each dot is one of Inductotherm’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). Inductotherm’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Inductotherm's grants concentrate

Inductotherm Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 56.8% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Inductotherm sits between Idex Biometrics ASA and Kaltenbach & Voigt GMBH.

Inductotherm's three-year grant acceleration

Inductotherm Corp. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Idex Biometrics A…

37
ILI Technology

37
Infinitum Electric

37
Inter-university…

37
Institute of Opti…

37
Junkosha

37
Johnson Level & T…

37
Kaltenbach & Voigt

37
Inductotherm ◀

37

What this shows Inductotherm holds 37 patents at rank #8,613, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inductotherm

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,613 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Inductotherm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Inductotherm ranks #176 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research 43 Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University 43 MD Healthcare Inc. 43 SAN Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. 43

Inductotherm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Inductotherm Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	16.2%
2016	9	24.3%
2017	4	10.8%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	2	5.4%
2020	4	10.8%
2021	1	2.7%
2022	1	2.7%
2023	2	5.4%
2024	3	8.1%
2025partial year	2	5.4%

Which technologies does Inductotherm Corp. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 21

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 14

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 6

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 1

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

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 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Inductotherm Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inductotherm Corp.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 56.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #8,611 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inductotherm Corp. against Idex Biometrics ASA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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