Where does Valve Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valve Corporation ranks #1,996 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 Valve Corporation hold?

Valve Corporation holds 201 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Valve Corporation's Innovation Score?

Valve Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.8 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Valve Corporation focus on?

Valve Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 98 patents, ranking #554 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Valve Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valve Corporation's recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Valve Corporation's patents?

Valve Corporation's patents average 19.1 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 Valve Corporation 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 US Corporation

Valve Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 201 granted patents across 39 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valve ranks #1,996 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 201 patents across 39 technology areas.

#1,996
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1996 · US Corporation #1,996 · 201 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 201 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,996/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Kayaku
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Valve’s 57.8 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 18.3 pts (32%) Velocity 5.9 pts (10%) Breadth 22.1 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Roche Molecular… · near

58
SHL Medical · near

58
University-industry… · near

58
Valve · this assignee

58
Zoetis Services · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valve's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (top 5% 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 Valve?

Each dot is one of Valve’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). Valve’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Valve's grants concentrate

Valve Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 48.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (44 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Valve sits between Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha and Enevate Corporation.

Valve's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Valve Corporation moved from 92 to 81 grants (0.88x 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 #1,554. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Kayaku

201
Renesas America

201
SMK

201
The Rockefeller U…

201
Wolfspeed

201
Valve ◀

201
Commscope of Nort…

200
Dongguan Luxshare

200
Enevate

200

What this shows Valve holds 201 patents at rank #1,996, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valve

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,996 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Valve, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Valve ranks #554 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

SHL Medical AG 58 Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. 58 University-industry Cooperation Group OF Kyung HEE University 58 Zoetis Services LLC 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Ofinno Technologies, LLC 19.1 avg Cognex Corporation 19.1 avg Deutsche Post AG 19.1 avg United Parcel Service OF America, Inc. 19.1 avg

Valve's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

View data table

Valve Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	3.0%
2016	7	3.5%
2017	6	3.0%
2019	17	8.5%
2020	31	15.4%
2021	44	21.9%
2022	33	16.4%
2023	28	13.9%
2024	20	10.0%
2025partial year	9	4.5%

Which technologies does Valve Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 98

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 83

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 78

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 29

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 24

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 16

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

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 8

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 6

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

Top 15 of 39 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Valve Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valve Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 48.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,996 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valve Corporation against Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.