Where does Nortek Air Solutions, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nortek Air Solutions, LLC ranks #18,959 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 Nortek Air Solutions, LLC hold?

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's Innovation Score?

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.3 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nortek Air Solutions, LLC focus on?

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 11 patents, ranking #91 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's patents?

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's patents average 28.9 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 Nortek Air Solutions, 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

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Nortek ranks #18,959 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 19 technology areas.

#18,959
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 28.9
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18959 · US Corporation #18,959 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,959/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nikon SLM Solutions
CPC-FOCUS F24F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nikon SLM Solutions AG (±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 Nortek’s 41.3 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 9.6 pts (23%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 15.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nortek Air Solutions · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nortek's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (top 33% 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 Nortek?

Each dot is one of Nortek’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). Nortek’s own 28.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nortek's grants concentrate

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Nortek sits between Nikon SLM Solutions AG and Obigo Inc..

Nortek's three-year grant acceleration

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Nikon SLM Solutio…

15
Ningbo Litesun El…

15
Ningbo Pureza Tec…

15
Nitta Haas

15
Novartis Vaccines…

15
Novatel Wireless

15
Nozomi Networks S…

15
Obigo

15
Nortek Air Soluti… ◀

15

What this shows Nortek holds 15 patents at rank #18,957, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nortek

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,957 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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

Nortek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nortek Air Solutions, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	4	26.7%
2017	1	6.7%
2018	2	13.3%
2019	3	20.0%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Nortek Air Solutions, LLC patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 11

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 9

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B01D - Separation 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

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 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nortek Air Solutions, LLC's lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #18,959 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nortek Air Solutions, LLC against Nikon SLM Solutions AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.3/100 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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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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