Where does Vahterus OY rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vahterus OY ranks #17,329 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 Vahterus OY hold?

Vahterus OY holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Vahterus OY's Innovation Score?

Vahterus OY has an Innovation Score of 50.2 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vahterus OY's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vahterus OY's recent grant velocity is -25% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Vahterus OY's patents?

Vahterus OY's patents average 11.6 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 Vahterus OY 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

Vahterus OY

Q: What technology areas does Vahterus OY focus on?

Vahterus OY's top technology area is F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact) with 13 patents, ranking #57 of 801 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 14 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: F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vahterus ranks #17,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 14 technology areas.

#17,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.2/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17329 · Foreign Corporation #17,329 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,329/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universitatsspital…
CPC-FOCUS F28D · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universitatsspital Basel (±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 Vahterus’s 50.2 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 10.0 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 13.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vahterus OY · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vahterus's Innovation Score is 50.2/100 (top 13% 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 Vahterus?

Each dot is one of Vahterus’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). Vahterus’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Vahterus's grants concentrate

Vahterus OY is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Vahterus sits between Universitatsspital Basel and Verifi LLC.

Vahterus's three-year grant acceleration

Vahterus OY shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Universitatsspita…

17
Uproot Lint

17
Urben

17
Utex Industries

17
Vascular Biogenics

17
Veeco Precision S…

17
Velocityehs Holdi…

17
Verifi

17
Vahterus OY ◀

17

What this shows Vahterus holds 17 patents at rank #17,325, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vahterus

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,325 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus)

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

Vahterus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Vahterus OY patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	1	5.9%
2017	2	11.8%
2018	2	11.8%
2019	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	2	11.8%
2025partial year	3	17.6%

Which technologies does Vahterus OY patent most?

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 13

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 11

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 7

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 3

B01D - Separation 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

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

B30B - Presses IN General 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B21H - Making Particular Metal Objects BY Rolling, e.g. Screws, Wheels, Rings, Barrels, Balls 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

F28G - Cleaning OF Internal OR External Surfaces OF Heat-exchange OR Heat-transfer Conduits, e.g. Water Tubes OR Boilers 1

B01B - BOILING; Boiling Apparatus ; ; EVAPORATION; Evaporation Apparatus 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Vahterus OY's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vahterus OY's lead technology class is F28D (Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28D
Ranked #17,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vahterus OY against Universitatsspital Basel, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.2/100 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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