Where does Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. ranks #25,484 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 Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. hold?

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 30.4 out of 100 (top 66% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s patents?

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s patents average 18.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. focus on?

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd.'s top technology area is F21S (NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: F21S (NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valeo ranks #25,484 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#25,484
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 66%
by Innovation Score (30.4/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25484 · Foreign Corporation #25,484 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,484/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Vacuum
CPC-NARROW F21S · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vacuum Technologies, 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
Valeo Lighting Hubei… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Valeo's Innovation Score is 30.4/100 (top 66% 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 Valeo's grants concentrate

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under F21S (NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Valeo sits between VPAY, Inc. and Vascular Graft Solutions Ltd..

VPAY

11
Vygon

11
Vacuum

11
Valencia Bioscien…

11
Valerion Therapeu…

11
Vanguard Group

11
Vascular Access

11
Vascular Graft So…

11
Valeo Lighting Hu… ◀

11

What this shows Valeo holds 11 patents at rank #25,489, 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 #25,489 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Valeo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 66% higher than 34% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	9.1%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	4	36.4%
2020	4	36.4%

Which technologies does Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd. patent most?

F21S - NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS 10

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 5

F21W - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO USES OR APPLICATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS 4

F21Y - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21S and F21V, RELATING TO THE FORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THE LIGHT EMITTED 4

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

B60Q - ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL 3

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS 1

H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL 1

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,484

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.4 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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