Where does Midea Group Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Midea Group Co., Ltd. ranks #470 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 Midea Group Co., Ltd. hold?

Midea Group Co., Ltd. holds 941 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 139 technology areas.

What is Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Midea Group Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 66.9 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 Midea Group Co., Ltd. focus on?

Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 172 patents, ranking #10 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 139 CPC subclasses total.

Is Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +388% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.8 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 Midea Group 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Midea Group Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 941 granted patents across 139 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, Midea ranks #470 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 941 patents across 139 technology areas.

#470
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.9/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +388%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R470 · Foreign Corporation #470 · 941 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 941 grants
TOP-DECILE #470/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Uber
CPC-WIDE F24F · 139 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +388% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Uber 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 Midea’s 66.9 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 23.7 pts (35%) Velocity 9.9 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Federal Express · near

67
Midea Group · this assignee

67
Space Exploration · near

67
LG Chem · near

67
Purem · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Midea's Innovation Score is 66.9/100 (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 Midea?

Each dot is one of Midea’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). Midea’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Midea's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Midea Group Co., Ltd. received 678 grants versus 139 in 2015–2019 (+388% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 180 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class F24F accounts for 18.3% of the portfolio across 139 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Korea University Research and Business Foundation (#466) and Wacom Co., Ltd. (#474).

Midea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Midea Group Co., Ltd. moved from 307 to 458 grants (1.49x 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 #453. See the growth leaderboard.

Korea University…

947
AAC Pte

946
Hand Held Products

946
NCR

942
Uber

941
Midea Group ◀

941
Agency FOR Scienc…

939
Fujikura

933
Wacom

933

What this shows Midea holds 941 patents at rank #470, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Midea

By rank, the assignees closest to #470 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Midea, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F24F (Air-conditioning), Midea ranks #10 of 885 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 67 Federal Express Corporation 67 LG Chem, Ltd. 67 Purem GmbH 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

Delta Electronics, Inc. 13.8 avg Virginia Commonwealth University 13.8 avg M. Technique Co., Ltd. 13.8 avg Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. 13.8 avg

Midea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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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Midea Group Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	0.3%
2016	5	0.5%
2017	10	1.1%
2018	34	3.6%
2019	87	9.2%
2020	121	12.9%
2021	99	10.5%
2022	180	19.1%
2023	114	12.1%
2024	164	17.4%
2025partial year	124	13.2%

Which technologies does Midea Group Co., Ltd. patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 172

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 134

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 99

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 83

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 58

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 54

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 46

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 45

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 37

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 35

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 35

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 30

B01D - Separation 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 25

Top 15 of 139 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

Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Midea Group Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 18.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #470 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Midea Group Co., Ltd. against Korea University Research and Business Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.9/100 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

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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