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
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.
Who leads F24T?
The 12 most active assignees in GEOTHERMAL COLLECTORS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS — wider bars mean more grants
- Ice Thermal Harvesting 49
ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC
49 patents
- Enhancedgeo Holdings 22
EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC
22 patents
- Eavor 16
Eavor Technologies Inc.
16 patents
- Ormat 38
ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
38 patents
- American Piledriving… 26
American Piledriving Equipment, Inc.
26 patents
- Hamfop 6
Hamfop Technologies LLC
6 patents
- Xgs Energy 6
XGS Energy, Inc.
6 patents
- Mitsubishi Heavy Indu…
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
161 patents
- U S Farathane 24
U.S. Farathane Corporation
24 patents
- Fervo Energy 5
Fervo Energy Company
5 patents
- Greenfire Energy 5
GreenFire Energy Inc.
5 patents
- Guangzhou Institute O… 50
GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
50 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.
View data table
| Rank | Company | Patents in F24T |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC | 49 |
| #2 | EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC | 22 |
| #3 | Eavor Technologies Inc. | 16 |
| #4 | ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 38 |
| #5 | American Piledriving Equipment, Inc. | 26 |
| #6 | Hamfop Technologies LLC | 6 |
| #7 | XGS Energy, Inc. | 6 |
| #8 | MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD. | 161 |
| #9 | U.S. Farathane Corporation | 24 |
| #10 | Fervo Energy Company | 5 |
| #11 | GreenFire Energy Inc. | 5 |
| #12 | GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | 50 |
| #13 | E.ON SVERIGE AB | 31 |
| #14 | BLADE ENERGY PARTNERS LTD. | 7 |
| #15 | ERDA Master IPCO Limited | 6 |
| #16 | CGG SERVICES SAS | 310 |
| #17 | OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY | 33 |
| #18 | The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. | 33 |
| #19 | EFFICIENT ENERGY GMBH | 26 |
| #20 | Nautilus TRUE, LLC | 20 |
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.
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