Where does Sanden Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sanden Corporation ranks #2,336 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 Corporation hold?

Sanden Corporation holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Sanden Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sanden Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Sanden Corporation's recent grant velocity is -63% 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 Sanden Corporation's patents?

Sanden Corporation's patents average 9.1 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 Sanden 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 Foreign Corporation

Sanden Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sanden Corporation focus on?

Sanden 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 87 patents. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 55 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: 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 #2,336 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 55 technology areas.

#2,336
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent: -63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2336 · Foreign Corporation #2,336 · 168 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,336/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Netronome Systems
CPC-WIDE B60H · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Netronome Systems, 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
Applied Medical… · near

54
Edwards Japan · near

54
ElringKlinger · near

54
Omnitracs · near

54
Sanden · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sanden's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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.

How Sanden's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sanden Corporation received 43 grants versus 116 in 2015–2019 (-63% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 2. Lead class B60H accounts for 51.8% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: NLT Technologies, Ltd. (#2,332) and Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC (#2,340).

Sanden's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sanden Corporation moved from 37 to 30 grants (0.81x 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 #1,808. See the growth leaderboard.

NLT

168
Netronome Systems

168
Oerlikon Surface…

168
Research Foundati…

168
Techtronic Floor…

168
The Government of…

168
Tracfone Wireless

168
Tribune Broadcast…

168
Sanden ◀

168

What this shows Sanden holds 168 patents at rank #2,336, 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 #2,336 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Edwards Japan Limited 54 Applied Medical Resources Corporation 54 ElringKlinger AG 54 Omnitracs, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.1 here).

Hitachi-ge Nuclear Energy, Ltd. 9.1 avg Wuyi University 9.1 avg South China University of Technology 9.1 avg Aisin Corporation 9.1 avg

Sanden's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Sanden Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	11.3%
2016	15	8.9%
2017	26	15.5%
2018	32	19.0%
2019	24	14.3%
2020	9	5.4%
2021	4	2.4%
2022	2	1.2%
2023	15	8.9%
2024	13	7.7%
2025partial year	9	5.4%

Which technologies does Sanden Corporation patent most?

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 87

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 61

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 19

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 18

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 17

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 13

F02G - HOT GAS OR Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants ; USE OF Waste Heat OF Combustion ENGINES; NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 12

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 9

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 9

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 8

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

Top 15 of 55 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,336

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Sanden 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), 51.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60H
Ranked #2,336 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sanden Corporation against NLT Technologies, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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