Where does Whirlpool Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Whirlpool Corporation ranks #106 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 Whirlpool Corporation hold?

Whirlpool Corporation holds 3,434 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 198 technology areas.

What is Whirlpool Corporation's Innovation Score?

Whirlpool Corporation has an Innovation Score of 68.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Whirlpool Corporation focus on?

Whirlpool Corporation's top technology area is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 855 patents, ranking #2 of 588 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 198 CPC subclasses total.

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

Whirlpool Corporation's recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Whirlpool Corporation's patents?

Whirlpool Corporation's patents average 14.6 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 Whirlpool 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 US Corporation

Whirlpool Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,434 granted patents across 198 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, Whirlpool ranks #106 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,434 patents across 198 technology areas.

#106
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.7/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R106 · US Corporation #106 · 3,434 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #106/49,997
NEAR-PEER Nissan Motor
CPC-WIDE F25D · 198 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (±22 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 Whirlpool’s 68.7 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 28.1 pts (41%) Velocity 6.8 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Panasonic Intellectu… · near

69
Wuhan China Star… · near

69
Whirlpool · this assignee

69
Carefusion 303 · near

69
The Toronto-Dominion… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Whirlpool's Innovation Score is 68.7/100 (top 1% 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 Whirlpool?

Each dot is one of Whirlpool’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). Whirlpool’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Whirlpool's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Whirlpool Corporation received 1,664 grants versus 1,563 in 2015–2019 (+6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 378 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 229. Lead class F25D accounts for 24.9% of the portfolio across 198 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (#102) and United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (#110).

Whirlpool's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Whirlpool Corporation moved from 991 to 1,017 grants (1.03x 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 #1,116. See the growth leaderboard.

Panasonic Intelle…

3,535
Hamilton Sundstra…

3,501
Corning Incorpora…

3,494
Nissan Motor

3,456
Whirlpool ◀

3,434
Seagate Technology

3,383
Boston Scientific…

3,361
Snap

3,345
United States of…

3,298

What this shows Whirlpool holds 3,434 patents at rank #106, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Whirlpool

By rank, the assignees closest to #106 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25D (Refrigerators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Whirlpool, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F25D (Refrigerators), Whirlpool ranks #2 of 588 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd. 69 Carefusion 303, Inc. 69 Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America 69 The Toronto-Dominion Bank 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 14.6 avg Johnson Electric International AG 14.6 avg ESS Tech, Inc. 14.6 avg Conagen Inc. 14.6 avg

Whirlpool's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Whirlpool Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	229	6.7%
2016	302	8.8%
2017	331	9.6%
2018	357	10.4%
2019	344	10.0%
2020	356	10.4%
2021	291	8.5%
2022	321	9.3%
2023	378	11.0%
2024	318	9.3%
2025partial year	207	6.0%

Which technologies does Whirlpool Corporation patent most?

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 855

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 807

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 471

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 302

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 275

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 259

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 212

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 201

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 185

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 167

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 127

B01D - Separation 94

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 93

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 92

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 84

Top 15 of 198 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

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

Whirlpool Corporation's lead technology class is F25D (REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 24.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25D
Ranked #106 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Whirlpool Corporation against Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.7/100 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

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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