Where does Van Zanten Breeding B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Van Zanten Breeding B.V. ranks #9,158 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 Van Zanten Breeding B.V. hold?

Van Zanten Breeding B.V. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Van Zanten Breeding B.V. has an Innovation Score of 16.6 out of 100 (4th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Van Zanten Breeding B.V. focus on?

Van Zanten Breeding B.V. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s patents?

Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s patents average 1.0 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 Van Zanten Breeding B.V. 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

Van Zanten Breeding B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Van ranks #9,158 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 0 technology areas.

#9,158
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 4th percentile
by Innovation Score (16.6/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9158 · Foreign Corporation #9,158 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,158/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University of South…
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 16.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University of South Alabama (±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 Van’s 16.6 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 (74%) Velocity 3.7 pts (22%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
STS Semiconductor &… · near

17
Zhongshan Yinghao… · near

17
Van Zanten Breeding… · this assignee

17
Interlemo Holding · near

17
C7th · near

17
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Van's Innovation Score is 16.6/100 (4th 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 Van?

Each dot is one of Van’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). Van’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Van's grants concentrate

Van Zanten Breeding B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Van sits between UVic Industry Partnerships Inc. and Volkswagen Group of America Investments, LLC.

Van's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Van Zanten Breeding B.V. moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Uvic Industry Par…

35
University of Sou…

35
Valeo Iluminacion

35
Valmet Aktiebolag

35
Vionic Group

35
Vitesco Germany

35
Vivonics

35
Volkswagen Group…

35
Van Zanten Breedi… ◀

35

What this shows Van holds 35 patents at rank #9,156, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Van

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,156 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Van, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (17 here).

Zhongshan Yinghao Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 17 Interlemo Holding S.A. 17 STS Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co., Ltd. 17 C7th Limited 17

Van's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

17 4th percentile higher than 4% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Van Zanten Breeding B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	11.4%
2019	13	37.1%
2020	4	11.4%
2021	3	8.6%
2022	5	14.3%
2023	5	14.3%
2024	1	2.9%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Van Zanten Breeding B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #9,158 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Van Zanten Breeding B.V. against UVic Industry Partnerships Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 16.6/100 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

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.