Where does Fontem Ventures B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fontem Ventures B.V. ranks #6,531 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 Fontem Ventures B.V. hold?

Fontem Ventures B.V. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Fontem Ventures B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Fontem Ventures B.V. has an Innovation Score of 60.5 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fontem Ventures B.V. focus on?

Fontem Ventures B.V.'s top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 51 patents, ranking #16 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fontem Ventures B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Fontem Ventures B.V..

What does claim depth mean for Fontem Ventures B.V.'s patents?

Fontem Ventures B.V.'s patents average 14.1 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 Fontem Ventures B.V. 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 Foreign Corporation

Fontem Ventures B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fontem ranks #6,531 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 27 technology areas.

#6,531
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.5/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6531 · Foreign Corporation #6,531 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,531/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FKA Distributing
CPC-FOCUS A24F · 27 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FKA Distributing Co., 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.

How Fontem’s 60.5 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 13.6 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 18.4 pts (30%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
REE Automotive · near

60
Enphase Energy · near

60
Fontem Ventures B V · this assignee

60
Qisda · near

60
Yamaha · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fontem's Innovation Score is 60.5/100 (top 3% 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 Fontem?

Each dot is one of Fontem’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). Fontem’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fontem's grants concentrate

Fontem Ventures B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Fontem sits between FKA Distributing Co., LLC and Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd..

Fontem's three-year grant acceleration

Fontem Ventures B.V. shows 30 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

FKA Distributing

51
Flir Detection

51
Fujitsu Connected

51
Flex Logix

51
Fujimori Kogyo

51
GDM S P A

51
Guangdong Bestek…

51
Guangzhou Tyrafos…

51
Fontem Ventures B… ◀

51

What this shows Fontem holds 51 patents at rank #6,532, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fontem

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,532 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fontem, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Fontem ranks #16 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Enphase Energy, Inc. 60 Qisda Corporation 60 Yamaha Corporation 60 REE Automotive Ltd 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Noxell Corporation 14.1 avg Bae Systems Hägglunds Aktiebolag 14.1 avg University OF Science AND Technology OF China 14.1 avg Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. 14.1 avg

Fontem's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fontem Ventures B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	3.9%
2023	11	21.6%
2024	17	33.3%
2025partial year	21	41.2%

Which technologies does Fontem Ventures B.V. patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 51

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 22

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 18

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 3

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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 2

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Top 15 of 27 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

Fontem Ventures B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fontem Ventures B.V.'s lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #6,531 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fontem Ventures B.V. against FKA Distributing Co., LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.