Where does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited ranks #24,977 of 50,000 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 Manufacturing Limited hold?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited's Innovation Score?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited has an Innovation Score of 31.9 out of 100 (top 61% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Manufacturing Limited's patents?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited's patents average 13.2 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 Manufacturing Limited 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

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited

Q: What technology areas does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited focus on?

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited's top technology area is Y10T (TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: Y10T (TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Parker ranks #24,977 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 19 technology areas.

#24,977
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 61%
by Innovation Score (31.9/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24977 · Foreign Corporation #24,977 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,977/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Pandion Operations
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pandion Operations, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Parker Hannifin Manu… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Parker's Innovation Score is 31.9/100 (top 61% 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.

Where Parker's grants concentrate

Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under Y10T (TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Parker sits between Pandion Operations, Inc. and Peptilogics, Inc..

Pandion Operations

11
Paper-pak Industr…

11
Paradigm Health a…

11
Parenteral

11
Pattern Bioscience

11
Pendotech

11
Peptidream

11
Peptilogics

11
Parker Hannifin M… ◀

11

What this shows Parker holds 11 patents at rank #24,988, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Parker

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Parker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 61% higher than 39% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	36.4%
2017	3	27.3%
2018	4	36.4%

Which technologies does Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited patent most?

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

B01D - SEPARATION 3

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 2

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING 2

F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

C12M - APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; APPARATUS FOR CULTURING MICROORGANISMS FOR PRODUCING BIOMASS, FOR GROWING CELLS OR FOR OBTAINING FERMENTATION OR METABOLIC PRODUCTS, i.e. BIOREACTORS OR FERMENTERS 1

B60W - CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT 1

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 1

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 1

F25B - REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS 1

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 1

F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT 1

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,977

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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