Where does Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation ranks #11,421 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 Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation hold?

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation has an Innovation Score of 31.7 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's patents?

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's patents average 9.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation focus on?

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's top technology area is B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles) with 25 patents, ranking #28 of 379 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Sanden Automotive Climate Systems 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 PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sanden ranks #11,421 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,421
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.7/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11421 · Foreign Corporation #11,421 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,421/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Redpine Signals
CPC-FOCUS B60H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Redpine Signals, 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 Sanden’s 31.7 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 11.5 pts (36%) Velocity 2.3 pts (7%) Breadth 12.2 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adhezion Biomedical · near

32
Carl Geringhoff & KG · near

32
CJ CGV · near

32
HLT · near

32
Sanden Automotive… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sanden's Innovation Score is 31.7/100 (39th percentile 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 Sanden?

Each dot is one of Sanden’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). Sanden’s own 9.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sanden's grants concentrate

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 92.6% of grants classified under B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Sanden sits between Redpine Signals, Inc. and Shanghai Hode Information Technology Co., Ltd..

Sanden's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation moved from 20 to 7 grants (0.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Redpine Signals

27
Reflect Scientific

27
Safoco

27
Sakti3

27
SCA Tissue France

27
Sciaps

27
Selle Royal S P A

27
Shanghai Hode Inf…

27
Sanden Automotive… ◀

27

What this shows Sanden holds 27 patents at rank #11,417, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sanden

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,417 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60H (Arrangements OF Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sanden, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60H (Arrangements OF Heating), Sanden ranks #28 of 379 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Adhezion Biomedical, LLC 32 HLT, Inc. 32 CJ CGV Co., Ltd. 32 Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG 32

Sanden's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	11.1%
2020	8	29.6%
2021	9	33.3%
2022	6	22.2%
2023	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation patent most?

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 25

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 19

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 2

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

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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation's lead technology class is B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles), 92.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60H
Ranked #11,421 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sanden Automotive Climate Systems Corporation against Redpine Signals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.7/100 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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