Where does Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH ranks #1,529 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 Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH hold?

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH holds 273 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's Innovation Score?

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH has an Innovation Score of 58.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's recent grant velocity is +41% 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 Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's patents?

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's patents average 13.1 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 Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH 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 Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH focus on?

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's top technology area is 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) with 141 patents. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 273 granted patents across 75 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valeo ranks #1,529 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 273 patents across 75 technology areas.

#1,529
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1529 · Foreign Corporation #1,529 · 273 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 273 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,529/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Omya International
CPC-WIDE G01S · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Omya International AG (±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
Dentsply Sirona · near

58
Beijing Summer… · near

58
Sandvik Mining and… · near

58
Toyocolor · near

58
Valeo Schalter UND… · this assignee

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valeo's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (top 4% 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.

How Valeo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH received 140 grants versus 99 in 2015–2019 (+41% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 10. Lead class G01S accounts for 51.6% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Omya International AG (#1,525) and Woodward, Inc. (#1,533).

Valeo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH moved from 84 to 78 grants (0.93x 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 #1,389. See the growth leaderboard.

Omya International

273
Otsuka Pharmaceut…

273
Pearson Education

273
Roche Sequencing…

273
William Marsh Ric…

273
Valeo Schalter UN… ◀

273
Acclarent

272
China University…

272
Woodward

272

What this shows Valeo holds 273 patents at rank #1,529, 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 #1,529 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy 58 Beijing Summer Sprout Technology Co., Ltd. 58 Toyocolor Co., Ltd. 58 Dentsply Sirona Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Chervon (HK) Limited 13.1 avg Jungheinrich AG 13.1 avg Flender GmbH 13.1 avg Maui Imaging, Inc. 13.1 avg

Valeo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	3.7%
2016	22	8.1%
2017	24	8.8%
2018	21	7.7%
2019	22	8.1%
2020	34	12.5%
2021	28	10.3%
2022	19	7.0%
2023	28	10.3%
2024	31	11.4%
2025partial year	34	12.5%

Which technologies does Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH patent most?

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 141

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 77

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 47

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 44

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 42

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 31

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 27

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 22

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 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 14

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,529

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 51.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,529 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH against Omya International AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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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