Where does Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC ranks #21,014 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 Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC hold?

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's patents?

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's patents average 15.8 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 Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, 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

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC focus on?

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 7 patents, ranking #285 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dixon ranks #21,014 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#21,014
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21014 · US Corporation #21,014 · 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 #21,014/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dioxycle
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dioxycle (±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 Dixon’s 43.7 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 9.1 pts (21%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 11.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dixon Valve & Coupling · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dixon's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Dixon?

Each dot is one of Dixon’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). Dixon’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Dixon vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Dixon's grants concentrate

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 53.8% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Dixon sits between Dioxycle and Donati S.p.A..

Dixon's three-year grant acceleration

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Dioxycle

13
Dirac Research AB

13
Direct Wheel

13
Displays by Marti…

13
Dometic

13
Dominant

13
Domino UK

13
Donati S p A

13
Dixon Valve & Cou… ◀

13

What this shows Dixon holds 13 patents at rank #21,025, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dixon

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,025 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Dixon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.7%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	2	15.4%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 7

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 53.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #21,014 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC against Dioxycle, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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