Where does White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. ranks #22,032 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 White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. hold?

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +17% 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 White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s patents?

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. 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

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. focus on?

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc.'s top technology area is F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, White ranks #22,032 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 14 technology areas.

#22,032
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22032 · US Corporation #22,032 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #22,032/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Wearwell
CPC-FOCUS F04B · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wearwell, Llc (±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
White Knight Fluid H… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows White's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 White's grants concentrate

White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under F04B (POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, White sits between Wearwell, Llc and Worldviz, Inc..

Wearwell

13
Werner Extrusion…

13
West Gen L L C

13
Wheelabrator Group

13
Wi-tronix

13
Wilhelm Layher Ve…

13
Winstron

13
Worldviz

13
White Knight Flui… ◀

13

What this shows White holds 13 patents at rank #22,036, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near White

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,036 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

White's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	30.8%
2019	2	15.4%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	2	15.4%
2024	3	23.1%

Which technologies does White Knight Fluid Handling, Inc. patent most?

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 9

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 6

H02K - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES 2

F16C - SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS 2

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

F24H - FLUID HEATERS, e.g. WATER OR AIR HEATERS, HAVING HEAT-GENERATING MEANS, e.g. HEAT PUMPS, IN GENERAL 1

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 1

B05C - APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 1

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 1

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 1

H02G - INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES 1

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,032

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.4 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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