Where does Vanguard Products Group, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vanguard Products Group, Inc. ranks #7,351 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 Vanguard Products Group, Inc. hold?

Vanguard Products Group, Inc. holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Vanguard Products Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.6 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vanguard Products Group, Inc. focus on?

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 20 patents, ranking #103 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +118% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s patents?

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s patents average 15.7 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 Vanguard Products Group, Inc. 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

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 9 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vanguard ranks #7,351 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 9 technology areas.

#7,351
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.6/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +118%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7351 · US Corporation #7,351 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,351/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Ames Companies
CPC-NARROW G08B · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +118% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Ames Companies, 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 Vanguard’s 46.6 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 13.2 pts (28%) Velocity 13.3 pts (29%) Breadth 10.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kyulux · near

47
Inteplast Group · near

47
University of Dundee · near

47
Vanguard Products… · this assignee

47
Ecole DE Superieure · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vanguard's Innovation Score is 46.6/100 (top 20% 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 Vanguard?

Each dot is one of Vanguard’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). Vanguard’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vanguard's grants concentrate

Vanguard Products Group, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Vanguard sits between The Ames Companies, Inc. and Xicato, Inc..

Vanguard's three-year grant acceleration

Vanguard Products Group, Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

The Ames Companies

45
Universal BIO Res…

45
UTC Fire & Securi…

45
Virident Systems

45
Vermont Juvenile…

45
Wing Enterprises…

45
Wahoo Fitness

45
Xicato

45
Vanguard Products… ◀

45

What this shows Vanguard holds 45 patents at rank #7,349, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vanguard

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,349 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vanguard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems), Vanguard ranks #103 of 2,091 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

University of Dundee 47 Inteplast Group Corporation 47 Ecole DE Technologie Superieure 47 Kyulux, Inc. 47

Vanguard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Vanguard Products Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.4%
2016	2	4.4%
2017	1	2.2%
2018	3	6.7%
2019	3	6.7%
2020	2	4.4%
2021	4	8.9%
2022	7	15.6%
2023	5	11.1%
2024	6	13.3%
2025partial year	10	22.2%

Which technologies does Vanguard Products Group, Inc. patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 20

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 20

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vanguard Products Group, Inc.'s lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #7,351 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vanguard Products Group, Inc. against The Ames Companies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.6/100 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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