Where does Valmet Aktiebolag rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valmet Aktiebolag ranks #9,157 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 Valmet Aktiebolag hold?

Valmet Aktiebolag holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Valmet Aktiebolag's Innovation Score?

Valmet Aktiebolag has an Innovation Score of 39.6 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Valmet Aktiebolag focus on?

Valmet Aktiebolag's top technology area is D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon) with 22 patents, ranking #11 of 93 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Valmet Aktiebolag's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valmet Aktiebolag's recent grant velocity is +62% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Valmet Aktiebolag's patents?

Valmet Aktiebolag's patents average 14.1 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 Valmet Aktiebolag 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

Valmet Aktiebolag

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 20 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: D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valmet ranks #9,157 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 20 technology areas.

#9,157
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.6/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9157 · Foreign Corporation #9,157 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,157/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universiteit Twente
CPC-FOCUS D21F · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universiteit Twente (±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 Valmet’s 39.6 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 12.4 pts (31%) Velocity 2.9 pts (7%) Breadth 15.8 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Locix · near

40
Roche Glycart · near

40
Sirrus · near

40
Tokyo Metropolitan… · near

40
Valmet Aktiebolag · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valmet's Innovation Score is 39.6/100 (top 38% 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 Valmet?

Each dot is one of Valmet’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). Valmet’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Valmet's grants concentrate

Valmet Aktiebolag is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 62.9% of grants classified under D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Valmet sits between Universiteit Twente and Vivonics, Inc..

Valmet's three-year grant acceleration

Valmet Aktiebolag shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Universiteit Twen…

35
Uvic Industry Par…

35
University of Sou…

35
Valeo Iluminacion

35
Van Zanten Breedi…

35
Vionic Group

35
Vitesco Germany

35
Vivonics

35
Valmet Aktiebolag ◀

35

What this shows Valmet holds 35 patents at rank #9,155, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valmet

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,155 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21F (Paper-making Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Valmet, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21F (Paper-making Machines), Valmet ranks #11 of 93 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute OF Medical Science 40 Locix, Inc. 40 Sirrus, Inc. 40 Roche Glycart AG 40

Valmet's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% 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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Valmet Aktiebolag patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.6%
2016	2	5.7%
2017	3	8.6%
2018	3	8.6%
2019	2	5.7%
2020	8	22.9%
2021	6	17.1%
2022	4	11.4%
2023	1	2.9%
2024	2	5.7%
2025partial year	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Valmet Aktiebolag patent most?

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 22

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 6

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 4

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 4

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 1

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Valmet Aktiebolag's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valmet Aktiebolag's lead technology class is D21F (Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon), 62.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21F
Ranked #9,157 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valmet Aktiebolag against Universiteit Twente, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.6/100 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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