Where does Ulvac, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ulvac, Inc. ranks #2,366 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 Ulvac, Inc. hold?

Ulvac, Inc. holds 166 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 83 technology areas.

What is Ulvac, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ulvac, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.0 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ulvac, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ulvac, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Ulvac, Inc.'s patents?

Ulvac, Inc.'s patents average 7.0 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 Ulvac, Inc. 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

Ulvac, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ulvac, Inc. focus on?

Ulvac, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 87 patents, ranking #29 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 83 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 166 granted patents across 83 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ulvac ranks #2,366 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 166 patents across 83 technology areas.

#2,366
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.0/100): 7.0
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2366 · Foreign Corporation #2,366 · 166 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 166 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,366/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH McMaster University
CPC-WIDE C23C · 83 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: McMaster University (±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 Ulvac’s 53.0 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 17.7 pts (33%) Velocity 6.1 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 4.2 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Senseonics Incorpora… · near

53
Cerebri AI · near

53
DJO · near

53
Nikola · near

53
Ulvac · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ulvac's Innovation Score is 53.0/100 (top 9% 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 Ulvac?

Each dot is one of Ulvac’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). Ulvac’s own 7.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Ulvac's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ulvac, Inc. received 81 grants versus 81 in 2015–2019 (+0% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 23 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 9. Lead class C23C accounts for 52.4% of the portfolio across 83 subclasses. Volume neighbours: McMaster University (#2,362) and DMG Mori Co., Ltd. (#2,370).

Ulvac's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ulvac, Inc. moved from 49 to 45 grants (0.92x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,416. See the growth leaderboard.

Mcmaster Universi…

166
RF Micro Devices

166
Stradvision

166
Temple University…

166
Xyleco

166
Ulvac ◀

166
A Raymond ET CIE

165
Amdocs Software S…

165
DMG Mori

165

What this shows Ulvac holds 166 patents at rank #2,366, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ulvac

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,366 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ulvac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Ulvac ranks #29 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

DJO, LLC 53 Nikola Corporation 53 Cerebri AI Inc. 53 Senseonics, Incorporated 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.0 here).

Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd. 7.0 avg Jtekt Corporation 7.0 avg Woodpeckers, LLC 7.1 avg Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited 7.1 avg

Ulvac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Ulvac, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	13.9%
2016	16	9.6%
2017	11	6.6%
2018	18	10.8%
2019	13	7.8%
2020	18	10.8%
2021	18	10.8%
2022	23	13.9%
2023	9	5.4%
2024	13	7.8%
2025partial year	4	2.4%

Which technologies does Ulvac, Inc. patent most?

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 87

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 66

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 56

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 12

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 8

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

C22C - Alloys 5

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 4

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 4

Top 15 of 83 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

Ulvac, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ulvac, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Evap), 52.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #2,366 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ulvac, Inc. against McMaster University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.0/100 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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