Where does Zodiac Pool Systems LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zodiac Pool Systems LLC ranks #4,143 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 Zodiac Pool Systems LLC hold?

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's Innovation Score?

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.5 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's recent grant velocity is +73% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's patents?

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's patents average 11.4 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 Zodiac Pool Systems 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

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC

Q: What technology areas does Zodiac Pool Systems LLC focus on?

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's top technology area is E04H (Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General) with 62 patents. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 58 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: E04H (Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zodiac ranks #4,143 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 58 technology areas.

#4,143
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.5/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4143 · US Corporation #4,143 · 87 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,143/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH VAT Holding
CPC-WIDE E04H · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: VAT Holding AG (±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
Csmc Fab2 · near

53
PureWick · near

53
Shin-Etsu Polymer · near

53
Thermwood · near

53
Zodiac Pool Systems · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zodiac's Innovation Score is 52.5/100 (top 10% 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.

How Zodiac's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Zodiac Pool Systems LLC received 52 grants versus 30 in 2015–2019 (+73% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 14 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 4. Lead class E04H accounts for 71.3% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: VAT Holding AG (#4,139) and Cambro Manufacturing Company (#4,147).

Zodiac's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zodiac Pool Systems LLC moved from 33 to 26 grants (0.79x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

VAT Holding

87
Winview

87
Xero

87
Yara Internationa…

87
Zodiac Pool Syste… ◀

87
ABB Technology Oy

86
American Regent

86
Broadband itv

86
Cambro Manufactur…

86

What this shows Zodiac holds 87 patents at rank #4,143, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zodiac

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,143 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04H (Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular Purposes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zodiac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. 53 Thermwood Corporation 53 PureWick Corporation 53 Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Waseda University 11.4 avg Krohne Messtechnik GmbH 11.4 avg Riken Technos Corporation 11.4 avg W.C. Bradley Co. 11.4 avg

Zodiac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Zodiac Pool Systems LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.6%
2016	6	6.9%
2017	4	4.6%
2018	9	10.3%
2019	7	8.0%
2020	12	13.8%
2021	14	16.1%
2022	9	10.3%
2023	13	14.9%
2024	4	4.6%
2025partial year	5	5.7%

Which technologies does Zodiac Pool Systems LLC patent most?

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 62

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 18

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 10

H04Q - Selecting 8

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B01D - Separation 6

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 5

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 4

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,143

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC's lead technology class is E04H (Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General), 71.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04H
Ranked #4,143 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zodiac Pool Systems LLC against VAT Holding AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.5/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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