Where does Vallourec Tubes France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vallourec Tubes France ranks #27,748 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 Vallourec Tubes France hold?

Vallourec Tubes France holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Vallourec Tubes France's Innovation Score?

Vallourec Tubes France has an Innovation Score of 35.7 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vallourec Tubes France focus on?

Vallourec Tubes France's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 7 patents, ranking #2,018 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vallourec Tubes France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vallourec Tubes France's recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vallourec Tubes France's patents?

Vallourec Tubes France's patents average 19.0 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 Vallourec Tubes France 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

Vallourec Tubes France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 7 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vallourec ranks #27,748 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 7 technology areas.

#27,748
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.7/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27748 · Foreign Corporation #27,748 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,748/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Urban Intelligence
CPC-NARROW G01N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Urban Intelligence, Inc. (±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 Vallourec’s 35.7 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 8.3 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 9.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Vallourec Tubes France · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Vallourec's Innovation Score is 35.7/100 (top 48% 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 Vallourec?

Each dot is one of Vallourec’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). Vallourec’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vallourec's grants concentrate

Vallourec Tubes France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Vallourec sits between Urban Intelligence, Inc. and Velo Enterprise Co., Ltd..

Vallourec's three-year grant acceleration

Vallourec Tubes France shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Urban Intelligence

10
Utah State Univer…

10
Uwiz Technology

10
Vallourec Drillin…

10
Valneva

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Valorisation HSJ…

10
Veda Data Solutio…

10
Velo Enterprise

10
Vallourec Tubes F… ◀

10

What this shows Vallourec holds 10 patents at rank #27,734, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vallourec

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,734 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Vallourec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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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Vallourec Tubes France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	2	20.0%
2025partial year	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Vallourec Tubes France patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

C22C - Alloys 2

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 2

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Vallourec Tubes France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vallourec Tubes France's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #27,748 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vallourec Tubes France against Urban Intelligence, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.7/100 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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