Where does Modine Manufacturing Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Modine Manufacturing Company ranks #3,205 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 Modine Manufacturing Company hold?

Modine Manufacturing Company holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Modine Manufacturing Company's Innovation Score?

Modine Manufacturing Company has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Modine Manufacturing Company focus on?

Modine Manufacturing Company's top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 88 patents, ranking #10 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Modine Manufacturing Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Modine Manufacturing Company's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Modine Manufacturing Company's patents?

Modine Manufacturing Company's patents average 15.9 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 Modine Manufacturing Company 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

Modine Manufacturing Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 39 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Modine ranks #3,205 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 39 technology areas.

#3,205
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3205 · US Corporation #3,205 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,205/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Karlsruher Institut…
CPC-FOCUS F28F · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Karlsruher Institut FÜR Technologie (±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 Modine’s 51.4 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 16.5 pts (32%) Velocity 3.2 pts (6%) Breadth 22.1 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GCP Applied · near

51
Azbil · near

51
MIE University · near

51
Modine Manufacturing · this assignee

51
Tallano · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Modine's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 Modine?

Each dot is one of Modine’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). Modine’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Modine's grants concentrate

Modine Manufacturing Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 75.2% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (19 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Modine sits between Karlsruher Institut FÜR Technologie and SmartDrive Systems, Inc..

Modine's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Modine Manufacturing Company moved from 39 to 19 grants (0.49x 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 #2,726. See the growth leaderboard.

Karlsruher Instit…

117
Krohne Messtechnik

117
Leidos

117
Merry (Shenzhen)

117
Nasdaq Technology…

117
Playnitride

117
SII Printek

117
Smartdrive Systems

117
Modine Manufactur… ◀

117

What this shows Modine holds 117 patents at rank #3,205, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Modine

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,205 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Modine, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Modine ranks #10 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Azbil Corporation 51 MIE University 51 Tallano Technologie 51 GCP Applied Technologies Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Dresser-rand Company 15.9 avg F-Secure Corporation 15.9 avg Acucela Inc. 15.9 avg Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG 15.9 avg

Modine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Modine Manufacturing Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	8.5%
2016	14	12.0%
2017	15	12.8%
2018	13	11.1%
2019	19	16.2%
2020	14	12.0%
2021	6	5.1%
2022	8	6.8%
2023	3	2.6%
2024	8	6.8%
2025partial year	7	6.0%

Which technologies does Modine Manufacturing Company patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 88

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 87

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 29

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 24

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 12

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 12

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 9

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 9

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 8

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 7

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 7

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 7

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 6

Top 15 of 39 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

Modine Manufacturing Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Modine Manufacturing Company's lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 75.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #3,205 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Modine Manufacturing Company against Karlsruher Institut FÜR Technologie, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.4/100 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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