Where does Valve Medical Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valve Medical Ltd. ranks #19,316 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 Medical Ltd. hold?

Valve Medical Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Valve Medical Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Valve Medical Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Valve Medical Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valve Medical Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -12% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Valve Medical Ltd.'s patents?

Valve Medical Ltd.'s patents average 23.7 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 Medical Ltd. 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

Valve Medical Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Valve Medical Ltd. focus on?

Valve Medical Ltd.'s top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 15 patents, ranking #428 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valve ranks #19,316 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 3 technology areas.

#19,316
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 23.7
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19316 · Foreign Corporation #19,316 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,316/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Valo Early Discovery
CPC-NARROW A61F · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valo Early Discovery, 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 Valve’s 33.3 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 9.6 pts (29%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 6.1 pts (18%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Valve Medical · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valve's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th percentile 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 23.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 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 Medical Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Valve sits between VLN Advanced Technologies Inc. and VentureMed Group, Inc..

Valve's three-year grant acceleration

Valve Medical Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

VLN Advanced

15
Vogelsang & KG

15
VT Idirect

15
Valo Early Discov…

15
Vascular Imaging

15
Vaxxas Pty

15
Vedanta Bioscienc…

15
Venturemed Group

15
Valve Medical ◀

15

What this shows Valve holds 15 patents at rank #19,319, 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 #19,319 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Valve's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Valve Medical Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.7%
2016	2	13.3%
2017	3	20.0%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	4	26.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Valve Medical Ltd. patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

Top 3 of 3 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

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

Valve Medical Ltd.'s lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #19,316 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valve Medical Ltd. against VLN Advanced Technologies Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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

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