Where does Varel International IND., L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Varel International IND., L.L.C. ranks #6,856 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 Varel International IND., L.L.C. hold?

Varel International IND., L.L.C. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Varel International IND., L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 39.9 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s patents?

Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s patents average 19.0 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 Varel International IND., L.L.C. 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

Varel International IND., L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does Varel International IND., L.L.C. focus on?

Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 42 patents, ranking #80 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Varel ranks #6,856 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 18 technology areas.

#6,856
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.9/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6856 · US Corporation #6,856 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,856/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ultratech
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ultratech (±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 Varel’s 39.9 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 13.5 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blee · near

40
Denso · near

40
GumGum · near

40
Sunfolding · near

40
Varel International… · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Varel's Innovation Score is 39.9/100 (top 37% 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 Varel?

Each dot is one of Varel’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). Varel’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Varel's grants concentrate

Varel International IND., L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (20 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Varel sits between University Public Corporation Osaka and Xaar Technology Limited.

University Public…

49
UniversitÉ Cathol…

49
Ultratech

49
V-wave

49
W&H Dentalwerk Bü…

49
Walter

49
Welldoc

49
Xaar Technology

49
Varel Internation… ◀

49

What this shows Varel holds 49 patents at rank #6,856, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Varel

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,856 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Varel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Varel ranks #80 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Denso Electronics Corporation 40 GumGum, Inc. 40 Sunfolding, Inc. 40 Blee. LLC 40

Varel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Varel International IND., L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	16.3%
2016	20	40.8%
2017	5	10.2%
2018	4	8.2%
2019	5	10.2%
2020	5	10.2%
2021	2	4.1%

Which technologies does Varel International IND., L.L.C. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 42

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 6

C22C - Alloys 6

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 6

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 5

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 4

C25F - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Removal OF Materials From OBJECTS; Apparatus Therefor 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

B25D - Percussive Tools 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Varel International IND., L.L.C.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #6,856 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Varel International IND., L.L.C. against University Public Corporation Osaka, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.9/100 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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