Where does Valeo Embrayages rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valeo Embrayages ranks #2,535 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 Valeo Embrayages hold?

Valeo Embrayages holds 154 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Valeo Embrayages's Innovation Score?

Valeo Embrayages has an Innovation Score of 47.2 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Valeo Embrayages focus on?

Valeo Embrayages's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 107 patents, ranking #39 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Valeo Embrayages's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valeo Embrayages's recent grant velocity is -73% 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 Valeo Embrayages's patents?

Valeo Embrayages's patents average 17.8 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 Valeo Embrayages 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

Valeo Embrayages

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 154 granted patents across 21 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valeo ranks #2,535 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 154 patents across 21 technology areas.

#2,535
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2535 · Foreign Corporation #2,535 · 154 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 154 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,535/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Polestar Performance…
CPC-FOCUS F16H · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Polestar Performance AB (±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 Valeo’s 47.2 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 17.4 pts (37%) Velocity 2.9 pts (6%) Breadth 16.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Academy OF… · near

47
Alkermes · near

47
Optasense Holdings · near

47
Universite De… · near

47
Valeo Embrayages · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valeo's Innovation Score is 47.2/100 (top 19% 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 Valeo?

Each dot is one of Valeo’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). Valeo’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Valeo's grants concentrate

Valeo Embrayages is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 69.5% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (38 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Valeo sits between Polestar Performance AB and Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Valeo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Valeo Embrayages moved from 48 to 21 grants (0.44x 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 #2,812. See the growth leaderboard.

Polestar Performa…

154
Rehrig Pacific

154
SAE Magnetics (H…

154
Technip France

154
Veniam

154
Valeo Embrayages ◀

154
Aurora Flight Sci…

153
Ballogy

153
Enanta Pharmaceut…

153

What this shows Valeo holds 154 patents at rank #2,535, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valeo

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,535 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Valeo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Valeo ranks #39 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Optasense Holdings Limited 47 Universite De Bretagne Occidentale 47 Alkermes, Inc. 47 China Academy OF Telecommunications Technology 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Provenance Asset Group LLC 17.8 avg Verizon Digital Media Services Inc. 17.8 avg Novamont S.p.A. 17.8 avg Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT 17.8 avg

Valeo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Valeo Embrayages patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.9%
2016	12	7.8%
2017	29	18.8%
2018	31	20.1%
2019	38	24.7%
2020	8	5.2%
2021	2	1.3%
2022	4	2.6%
2023	10	6.5%
2024	7	4.5%
2025partial year	10	6.5%

Which technologies does Valeo Embrayages patent most?

F16H - Gearing 107

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 81

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 68

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 11

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 2

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Valeo Embrayages's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valeo Embrayages's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 69.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #2,535 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valeo Embrayages against Polestar Performance AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.2/100 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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