Where does Valeo Vision rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valeo Vision ranks #821 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 Vision hold?

Valeo Vision holds 559 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 79 technology areas.

What is Valeo Vision's Innovation Score?

Valeo Vision has an Innovation Score of 61.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Valeo Vision's recent grant velocity is +15% 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 Vision's patents?

Valeo Vision's patents average 17.1 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 Vision 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 Vision

Q: What technology areas does Valeo Vision focus on?

Valeo Vision's top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 416 patents. Grants appear in 79 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 559 granted patents across 79 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: 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 #821 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 559 patents across 79 technology areas.

#821
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.6/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R821 · Foreign Corporation #821 · 559 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 559 grants
TOP-DECILE #821/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dümmen Group B V
CPC-WIDE F21S · 79 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dümmen Group B.V. (±1 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
Mattel · near

62
Philips Image… · near

62
Empire Technology… · near

62
Sonoco Development · near

62
Valeo Vision · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valeo's Innovation Score is 61.6/100 (top 3% 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 Vision received 272 grants versus 237 in 2015–2019 (+15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 88 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 24. Lead class F21S accounts for 74.4% of the portfolio across 79 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (#817) and Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha (#825).

Valeo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Valeo Vision moved from 215 to 145 grants (0.67x 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 #2,234. See the growth leaderboard.

Gilead Sciences

561
Yaskawa Denki

561
Toto

560
Unicharm

560
Valeo Vision ◀

559
Dümmen Group B V

558
Minebea Mitsumi

558
Zimmer

558
Asahi Kasei

557

What this shows Valeo holds 559 patents at rank #821, 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 #821 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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 (62 here).

Sonoco Development, Inc. 62 Empire Technology Development LLC 62 Mattel, Inc. 62 Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama 17.1 avg Minerva Surgical, Inc. 17.1 avg UNL Holdings LLC 17.1 avg Integrity Implants Inc. 17.1 avg

Valeo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 Vision patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	5.4%
2016	24	4.3%
2017	33	5.9%
2018	62	11.1%
2019	88	15.7%
2020	77	13.8%
2021	50	8.9%
2022	39	7.0%
2023	32	5.7%
2024	74	13.2%
2025partial year	50	8.9%

Which technologies does Valeo Vision patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 416

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 268

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 147

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 132

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 124

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 86

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 83

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 28

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 24

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 23

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 21

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 18

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 12

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

Top 15 of 79 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#821

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.6 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 Vision's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valeo Vision's lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 74.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #821 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valeo Vision against Gilead Sciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.6/100 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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