Where does Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. ranks #11,869 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 Emea S.p.A. hold?

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s Innovation Score?

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% 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 Emea S.p.A. focus on?

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s top technology area is F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application) with 19 patents, ranking #17 of 281 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s patents?

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s patents average 14.7 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 Emea S.p.A. 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

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Whirlpool ranks #11,869 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 17 technology areas.

#11,869
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11869 · Foreign Corporation #11,869 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,869/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vitec Holdings…
CPC-FOCUS F24C · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vitec Holdings Italia SRL (±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 Whirlpool’s 35.5 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 11.4 pts (32%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 14.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Nanotechnologies · near

36
Jiaxing Jackson… · near

36
Pi-Design · near

36
Vectura Delivery… · near

36
Whirlpool Emea S p A · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Whirlpool's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.7 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.

Where Whirlpool's grants concentrate

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 73.1% of grants classified under F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Whirlpool sits between Vitec Holdings Italia SRL and Warner Science Applications Corp..

Whirlpool's three-year grant acceleration

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

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26
Vortex Pipe Syste…

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Wandisco

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West China Hospit…

26
Wing Hing Manufac…

26
Workaround

26
Wuhan University…

26
Warner Science Ap…

26
Whirlpool Emea S… ◀

26

What this shows Whirlpool holds 26 patents at rank #11,868, 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 #11,868 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges)

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 F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges), Whirlpool ranks #17 of 281 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Jiaxing Jackson Travel Products Co., Ltd. 36 Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. 36 Vectura Delivery Devices Limited 36 Pi-Design AG 36

Whirlpool's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.8%
2018	5	19.2%
2019	8	30.8%
2020	6	23.1%
2021	4	15.4%
2022	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. patent most?

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 19

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 4

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 3

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 2

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F23D - Burners 2

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 15 of 17 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 Emea S.p.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Whirlpool Emea S.p.A.'s lead technology class is F24C (Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application), 73.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24C
Ranked #11,869 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. against Vitec Holdings Italia SRL, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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

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