Where does Parker-Hannifin Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Parker-Hannifin Corporation ranks #758 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 Parker-Hannifin Corporation hold?

Parker-Hannifin Corporation holds 605 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 168 technology areas.

What is Parker-Hannifin Corporation's Innovation Score?

Parker-Hannifin Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Parker-Hannifin Corporation focus on?

Parker-Hannifin Corporation's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 98 patents, ranking #10 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 168 CPC subclasses total.

Is Parker-Hannifin Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Parker-Hannifin Corporation's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Parker-Hannifin Corporation's patents?

Parker-Hannifin Corporation's patents average 16.8 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 Parker-Hannifin 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

Parker-Hannifin Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 605 granted patents across 168 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Parker-hannifin ranks #758 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 605 patents across 168 technology areas.

#758
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R758 · US Corporation #758 · 605 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 605 grants
TOP-DECILE #758/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carl Zeiss Microscopy
CPC-WIDE F16K · 168 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (±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 Parker-hannifin’s 63.2 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 22.1 pts (35%) Velocity 6.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ansys · near

63
Ingersoll-Rand… · near

63
Parker-Hannifin · this assignee

63
Renesas · near

63
Dish Network India… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Parker-hannifin's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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 Parker-hannifin?

Each dot is one of Parker-hannifin’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). Parker-hannifin’s own 16.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Parker-hannifin's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Parker-Hannifin Corporation received 260 grants versus 305 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 72 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 40. Lead class F16K accounts for 16.2% of the portfolio across 168 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GE Aviation Systems Limited (#754) and MaxLinear, Inc. (#762).

Parker-hannifin's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Parker-Hannifin Corporation moved from 164 to 147 grants (0.90x 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 #1,491. See the growth leaderboard.

GE Aviation Syste…

607
Essilor Internati…

606
Sysmex

606
Carl Zeiss Micros…

605
Parker-hannifin ◀

605
Abb Vie

604
SAS Institute

604
DIC

602
Maxlinear

602

What this shows Parker-Hannifin holds 605 patents at rank #758, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Parker-Hannifin

By rank, the assignees closest to #758 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Parker-Hannifin's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Parker-Hannifin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Parker-Hannifin ranks #10 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Renesas Electronics Corporation 63 Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc. 63 Ansys, Inc. 63 Dish Network Technologies India Private Limited 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Columbia Insurance Company 16.8 avg Quantcast Corporation 16.8 avg The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 16.8 avg Novomatic AG 16.8 avg

Parker-hannifin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Parker-Hannifin Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	63	10.4%
2016	54	8.9%
2017	65	10.7%
2018	72	11.9%
2019	51	8.4%
2020	50	8.3%
2021	63	10.4%
2022	58	9.6%
2023	49	8.1%
2024	40	6.6%
2025partial year	40	6.6%

Which technologies does Parker-Hannifin Corporation patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 98

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 97

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 94

B01D - Separation 70

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 58

F16H - Gearing 56

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 37

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 33

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 27

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 27

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 27

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 23

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 21

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 21

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 20

Top 15 of 168 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

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

Parker-Hannifin Corporation's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 16.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #758 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Parker-Hannifin Corporation against GE Aviation Systems Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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.

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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

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