Where does Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC ranks #12,299 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 Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC hold?

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's Innovation Score?

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.8 out of 100 (36th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's patents?

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's patents average 9.5 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 Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC 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

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC focus on?

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 22 patents, ranking #23 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vanderbilt ranks #12,299 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 13 technology areas.

#12,299
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 36th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.8/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12299 · US Corporation #12,299 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,299/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universität Heidelberg
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universität Heidelberg (±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 Vanderbilt’s 30.8 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 11.3 pts (37%) Velocity 1.1 pts (4%) Breadth 12.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Expression Pathology · near

31
Petram · near

31
Savage Arms · near

31
Adienne Pharma… · near

31
Vanderbilt Chemicals · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vanderbilt's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (36th 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 Vanderbilt?

Each dot is one of Vanderbilt’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). Vanderbilt’s own 9.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Vanderbilt's grants concentrate

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 88% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Vanderbilt sits between University of Waterloo and Vudu, Inc..

Vanderbilt's three-year grant acceleration

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC shows 1 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.

University of Wat…

25
Universität Heide…

25
Université Pierre…

25
Uster

25
Ventec Life Syste…

25
Verisilicon Micro…

25
Victrex Manufactu…

25
Vudu

25
Vanderbilt Chemic… ◀

25

What this shows Vanderbilt holds 25 patents at rank #12,294, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vanderbilt

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,294 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vanderbilt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10M (Lubricating Compositions), Vanderbilt ranks #23 of 300 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Adienne Pharma &biotech SA 31 Savage Arms, Inc. 31 Expression Pathology, Inc. 31 Petram Technologies, Inc. 31

Vanderbilt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 36th percentile higher than 36% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.0%
2016	3	12.0%
2017	7	28.0%
2018	5	20.0%
2019	2	8.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 22

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 22

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

F16H - Gearing 1

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #12,299 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC against University of Waterloo, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.8/100 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

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