Where does Val-chum, Limited Partnership rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Val-chum, Limited Partnership ranks #20,583 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 Val-chum, Limited Partnership hold?

Val-chum, Limited Partnership holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Val-chum, Limited Partnership's Innovation Score?

Val-chum, Limited Partnership has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Val-chum, Limited Partnership's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Val-chum, Limited Partnership's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Val-chum, Limited Partnership's patents?

Val-chum, Limited Partnership's patents average 16.2 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 Val-chum, Limited Partnership 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

Val-chum, Limited Partnership

Q: What technology areas does Val-chum, Limited Partnership focus on?

Val-chum, Limited Partnership's top technology area is A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 16 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: A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Val-chum ranks #20,583 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 16 technology areas.

#20,583
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20583 · Foreign Corporation #20,583 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,583/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH University of Massac…
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University Of Massachusetts Lowell (±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
Val-chum Partnership · this assignee

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Val-chum's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Val-chum's grants concentrate

Val-chum, Limited Partnership is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Val-chum sits between University Of Massachusetts Lowell and Versa Power Systems, Ltd.

University of Mas…

14
Uniweld Products

14
Upsher-smith Labo…

14
VADE Secure

14
Vanadis Diagnosti…

14
VAON

14
Verint Systems UK

14
Versa Power Syste…

14
Val-chum Partners… ◀

14

What this shows Val-chum holds 14 patents at rank #20,578, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Val-chum

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,578 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Val-chum's primary technology class.

Val-chum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 50,000 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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Val-chum, Limited Partnership patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	14.3%
2016	4	28.6%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	3	21.4%
2022	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Val-chum, Limited Partnership patent most?

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 6

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 5

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 3

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 3

C07K - PEPTIDES 2

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 2

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 2

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 1

G09B - EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS 1

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 1

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

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

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,583

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.5 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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