Where does Thermo King LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thermo King LLC ranks #1,520 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 King LLC hold?

Thermo King LLC holds 274 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 84 technology areas.

What is Thermo King LLC's Innovation Score?

Thermo King LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thermo King LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thermo King LLC's recent grant velocity is +38% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Thermo King LLC's patents?

Thermo King LLC's patents average 15.9 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 King 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 King LLC

Q: What technology areas does Thermo King LLC focus on?

Thermo King LLC'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 159 patents, ranking #8 of 379 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 84 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 274 granted patents across 84 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, Thermo ranks #1,520 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 274 patents across 84 technology areas.

#1,520
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (62.0/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1520 · US Corporation #1,520 · 274 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 274 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,520/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hexagon Technology…
CPC-WIDE B60H · 84 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hexagon Technology Center GMBH (±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 62.0 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 19.4 pts (31%) Velocity 8.0 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Precision Planting · near

62
Roche Diabetes Care · near

62
Thermo King · this assignee

62
Arthrex · near

62
G D S P A · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thermo's Innovation Score is 62.0/100 (top 3% 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 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Thermo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Thermo King LLC received 152 grants versus 110 in 2015–2019 (+38% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 16. Lead class B60H accounts for 58% of the portfolio across 84 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hexagon Technology Center GMBH (#1,516) and Nabtesco Corporation (#1,524).

Thermo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thermo King LLC moved from 80 to 96 grants (1.20x 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 #780. See the growth leaderboard.

Hexagon Technolog…

274
Hollister Incorpo…

274
National Instrume…

274
Saint-gobain Perf…

274
Thermo King ◀

274
Corephotonics

273
Denso TEN

273
DH Development PTE

273
Nabtesco

273

What this shows Thermo holds 274 patents at rank #1,520, 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 #1,520 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60H (Arrangements OF Heating)

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 B60H (Arrangements OF Heating), Thermo ranks #8 of 379 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. 62 Precision Planting LLC 62 Arthrex, Inc. 62 G.D S.P.A. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Danisco US Inc. 15.9 avg Sensata Technologies, Inc. 15.9 avg Rohm Co., Ltd. 15.9 avg Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 15.9 avg

Thermo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 King LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	7.3%
2016	16	5.8%
2017	27	9.9%
2018	23	8.4%
2019	24	8.8%
2020	31	11.3%
2021	25	9.1%
2022	26	9.5%
2023	39	14.2%
2024	31	11.3%
2025partial year	12	4.4%

Which technologies does Thermo King LLC patent most?

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 159

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 83

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 74

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 68

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 56

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 53

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

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 30

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 22

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 17

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 16

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 11

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

Top 15 of 84 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

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Thermo King LLC'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), 58% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60H
Ranked #1,520 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thermo King LLC against Hexagon Technology Center GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.0/100 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.

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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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