Where does Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC ranks #12,712 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC hold?

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's Innovation Score?

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC has an Innovation Score of 31.9 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's patents?

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's patents average 11.9 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC 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

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC

Q: What technology areas does Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC focus on?

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's top technology area is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 14 patents, ranking #49 of 588 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 10 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: F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thermo ranks #12,712 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 10 technology areas.

#12,712
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.9/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12712 · US Corporation #12,712 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,712/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Allen
CPC-FOCUS F25D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Allen Company, 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 Thermo’s 31.9 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 11.1 pts (35%) Velocity 2.5 pts (8%) Breadth 11.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amphenol-tuchel · near

32
Cool Gear Internatio… · near

32
Husky · near

32
Miro · near

32
Thermo Fisher… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thermo's Innovation Score is 31.9/100 (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 Thermo?

Each dot is one of Thermo’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). Thermo’s own 11.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Thermo's grants concentrate

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 58.3% of grants classified under F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Thermo sits between The Allen Company, Inc. and TriMark Corporation.

Thermo's three-year grant acceleration

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

The Allen

24
The Secretary of…

24
The Trade Desk

24
The Wooster Brush

24
Thule IP AB

24
Tianjin Universit…

24
Touchcast

24
Trimark

24
Thermo Fisher Sci… ◀

24

What this shows Thermo holds 24 patents at rank #12,718, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thermo

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,718 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25D (Refrigerators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thermo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25D (Refrigerators), Thermo ranks #49 of 588 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Husky Corporation 32 Amphenol-tuchel Electronics GMBH 32 Miro Co., Ltd. 32 Cool Gear International, LLC 32

Thermo'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 · 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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Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.5%
2016	4	16.7%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	2	8.3%
2020	4	16.7%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	2	8.3%
2023	1	4.2%
2025partial year	2	8.3%

Which technologies does Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC patent most?

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 10

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

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

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

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

Top 10 of 10 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

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC's lead technology class is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 58.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25D
Ranked #12,712 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC against The Allen Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.9/100 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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