Where does VAT Holding AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VAT Holding AG ranks #4,139 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 VAT Holding AG hold?

VAT Holding AG holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is VAT Holding AG's Innovation Score?

VAT Holding AG has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does VAT Holding AG focus on?

VAT Holding AG's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 70 patents, ranking #17 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is VAT Holding AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VAT Holding AG's recent grant velocity is +55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for VAT Holding AG's patents?

VAT Holding AG's patents average 13.9 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 VAT Holding AG 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

VAT Holding AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 26 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VAT ranks #4,139 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 26 technology areas.

#4,139
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: +55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4139 · Foreign Corporation #4,139 · 87 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,139/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shockwave Medical
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shockwave Medical, 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 VAT’s 51.0 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 15.5 pts (30%) Velocity 9.2 pts (18%) Breadth 18.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BRP US · near

51
Electrocore · near

51
Ememory Technology · near

51
OrCam · near

51
VAT Holding · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VAT's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 VAT?

Each dot is one of VAT’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). VAT’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where VAT's grants concentrate

VAT Holding AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 80.5% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (12 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, VAT sits between Shockwave Medical, Inc. and Zodiac Pool Systems LLC.

VAT's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, VAT Holding AG moved from 24 to 33 grants (1.38x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shockwave Medical

87
Tamron

87
Ultradent Products

87
University of Ver…

87
Winview

87
Xero

87
Yara Internationa…

87
Zodiac Pool Syste…

87
VAT Holding ◀

87

What this shows VAT holds 87 patents at rank #4,139, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VAT

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,139 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for VAT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), VAT ranks #17 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

OrCam Technologies Ltd. 51 Electrocore, Inc. 51 BRP US Inc. 51 Ememory Technology Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Sport Maska Inc. 13.9 avg Institut Polytechnique DE Bordeaux 13.9 avg Felica Networks, Inc. 13.9 avg The Eastern Company 13.9 avg

VAT's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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VAT Holding AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.9%
2016	5	5.7%
2017	7	8.0%
2018	4	4.6%
2019	9	10.3%
2020	10	11.5%
2021	5	5.7%
2022	12	13.8%
2023	9	10.3%
2024	12	13.8%
2025partial year	8	9.2%

Which technologies does VAT Holding AG patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 70

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 21

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 2

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 26 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

VAT Holding AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VAT Holding AG's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 80.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #4,139 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VAT Holding AG against Shockwave Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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.

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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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