Where does GVD Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GVD Corporation ranks #24,432 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does GVD Corporation hold?

GVD Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is GVD Corporation's Innovation Score?

GVD Corporation has an Innovation Score of 54.6 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GVD Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GVD Corporation's recent grant velocity is +20% 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 GVD Corporation's patents?

GVD Corporation's patents average 18.4 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 GVD Corporation 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

GVD Corporation

Q: What technology areas does GVD Corporation focus on?

GVD Corporation's top technology area is B05D (PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B05D (PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GVD ranks #24,432 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 18 technology areas.

#24,432
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.6/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24432 · US Corporation #24,432 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,432/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Galvion Soldier Power
CPC-FOCUS B05D · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Galvion Soldier Power, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GVD · this assignee

55
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows GVD's Innovation Score is 54.6/100 (top 8% 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.

Where GVD's grants concentrate

GVD Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under B05D (PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, GVD sits between Guangzhou Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. and Garwood Medical Devices, Llc.

GVD's three-year grant acceleration

GVD Corporation shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Guangzhou Constru…

11
Guangzhou Faner A…

11
Guanyu (Dongguan)…

11
Gunwerks

11
Galvion Soldier P…

11
Gaocheng

11
Gardner Denver

11
Garwood Medical D…

11
GVD ◀

11

What this shows GVD holds 11 patents at rank #24,400, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GVD

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,400 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B05D (Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces)

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

GVD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

GVD Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	1	9.1%
2017	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	3	27.3%

Which technologies does GVD Corporation patent most?

B05D - PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 10

C23C - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL 9

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 3

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 2

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 2

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 2

B05C - APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 2

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

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 1

C25B - ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; APPARATUS THEREFOR 1

B29D - PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE 1

B29C - SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,432

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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