CPC technology class · F24

F24T — Geothermal Collectors

Geothermal collectors; geothermal systems. 436 US utility patents granted 2015–2025, with the leading assignees and year-by-year filing trajectory.

436
US patents granted
F24
Parent CPC class
20
Active assignees
+101%
5-yr velocity
Top assignee: ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC (30 patents)

CPC subclass F24T — GEOTHERMAL COLLECTORS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS — covers 436 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025 according to USPTO PatentsView records. This subclass sits within the broader CPC class F24 (HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING), one of roughly 250 top-level technology categories in the Cooperative Patent Classification system jointly maintained by the USPTO and the European Patent Office. At the subclass level, four-character codes like F24T give the most practical resolution for tracking a specific technology domain without losing sight of adjacent filings. Every grant here has been classified by a USPTO examiner based on the technical disclosure in the patent specification.

The competitive landscape in F24T is shaped by 20 distinct companies actively filing in this space. ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC leads with 30 patents, followed by EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC at 22 grants and Eavor Technologies Inc. at 16. Concentration at the top of the leaderboard indicates whether this technology area is dominated by a handful of incumbents or fragmented across many filers — a useful signal for investors evaluating competitive moats and for product teams mapping freedom-to-operate risk.

Filing trajectory matters as much as static counts. The yearly series on this page plots grants from 2015 through 2025, highlighting whether innovation in F24T is accelerating, plateauing, or cooling. Technology areas with rising post-2020 activity often reflect emerging markets or new platform shifts, while declining filings can signal mature domains where incremental improvement has slowed. Researchers, licensing professionals, and competitive-intelligence teams use these patterns — together with the top-assignee distribution — to decide where to invest, where to license, and where to avoid entanglement. All counts on this page come directly from USPTO PatentsView and reflect US granted utility patents only.

Is F24T innovation accelerating?

US utility-patent grants per year in F24T, 2015–2025 — recent five years are up 101% versus 2015–2019.

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Who leads F24T?

The 12 most active assignees in GEOTHERMAL COLLECTORS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS — wider bars mean more grants

patents

What this shows Ice Thermal Harvesting is the most active filer in F24T, holding 30 of the 436 patents in this class. Concentration at the top signals how contestable this technology area is for new entrants.

Source USPTO PatentsView — granted utility patents As of 2015–2025 grant years
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About This Class

CPC subclass F24T belongs to class F24.

436 patents were granted in this class between 2015 and 2025.

20 companies actively patent in this space.

Classification System

Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a hierarchical patent classification system used by the USPTO and EPO.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CPC class F24T?
CPC subclass F24T covers GEOTHERMAL COLLECTORS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS. It belongs to CPC class F24 (HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING). The Cooperative Patent Classification is a hierarchical system used by the USPTO and European Patent Office to categorize patents by technology.
How many patents have been filed in F24T?
436 US utility patents were granted in CPC subclass F24T between 2015 and 2025, based on USPTO PatentsView data.
Which company holds the most patents in F24T?
ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC leads F24T with 30 patents, making it the most active assignee in this technology area.
How is patent data for F24T collected?
Patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It covers all US granted utility patents and assigns CPC codes based on the technology described in each patent.
What is the difference between CPC class and subclass?
A CPC class (e.g., F24) is a broad technology category. Subclasses like F24T provide finer granularity within that category. PlainPatent organizes data at the subclass level (4-character codes) for the most useful view of technology domains.

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Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView — official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent Editorial