Where does Thermal Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thermal Corp. ranks #21,905 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 Thermal Corp. hold?

Thermal Corp. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Thermal Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Thermal Corp. has an Innovation Score of 35.3 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thermal Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thermal Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Thermal Corp.'s patents?

Thermal Corp.'s patents average 25.5 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 Thermal Corp. 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

Thermal Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Thermal Corp. focus on?

Thermal Corp.'s top technology area is F28D (HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: F28D (HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thermal ranks #21,905 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#21,905
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.3/100): 25.5
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21905 · US Corporation #21,905 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,905/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH The Tuway American G…
CPC-FOCUS F28D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Tuway American Group, 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
BIG Heart PET · near

35
Sentek Pty · near

35
THE Nippon Synthetic… · near

35
Thermal · this assignee

35
Institut JEAN Paoli… · near

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Thermal's Innovation Score is 35.3/100 (top 50% 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 Thermal's grants concentrate

Thermal Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under F28D (HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Thermal sits between The Tuway American Group, Inc. and Thomas Engineering Solutions & Consulting, Llc.

The Tuway America…

13
The United States…

13
The University of…

13
Theken Spine

13
Thermo Fisher Sci…

13
Think Therapeutics

13
Thinoptics

13
Thomas Engineerin…

13
Thermal ◀

13

What this shows Thermal holds 13 patents at rank #21,934, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thermal

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,934 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thermal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

THE Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. 35 BIG Heart PET, Inc. 35 Sentek Pty Ltd. 35 Institut JEAN Paoli & Irene Calmettes 35

Thermal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

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

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Thermal Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	23.1%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	4	30.8%
2020	3	23.1%

Which technologies does Thermal Corp. patent most?

F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT 9

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 9

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 5

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 4

B23P - METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 1

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 1

B01D - SEPARATION 1

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

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,905

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.3 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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