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Vector Technologies LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2020. 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, Vector ranks #30,539 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 7 technology areas.

#30,539
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.3/100)
29.1
avg claims per patent
-50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30539 · US Corporation #30,539 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #30,539/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Vascular Dynamics
  • CPC-NARROW E21B · 7 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 29.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -50% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vascular Dynamics, 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 Vector’s 32.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Vector

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Vector's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (41st 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Vector?

Each dot is one of Vector’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). Vector’s own 29.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Vector vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Vascular Dynamics, Inc. - 9, 14.56Vascular DynamicsVaxInnate Corporation - 9, 33.89VaxinnateVayaVision Sensing Ltd. - 9, 24.89Vayavision SensingVecor IP Holdings Limited - 9, 15.56Vecor IP HoldingsVelicept Therapeutics, Inc. - 9, 34.89Velicept Therapeu…Ventinova Technologies B.V. - 9, 16.67Ventinova B VVentis Medical, Inc. - 9, 4.56Ventis MedicalVersabev, Inc. - 9, 19.33VersabevVector Technologies LLC - 9, 29.11Vector
Vector vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Vector's grants concentrate

Vector Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 88.9% 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 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2020. By volume, Vector sits between Vascular Dynamics, Inc. and Versabev, Inc..

Who files at Vector's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Vector holds 9 patents at rank #30,526, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Vector

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,526 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Vector's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

234567 20182020 3
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2020

Grants by year

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

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Vector Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2018 6 66.7%
2020 3 33.3%

Which technologies does Vector Technologies LLC patent most?

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Vector Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Vector Technologies LLC'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), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
  • Ranked #30,539 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Vector Technologies LLC against Vascular Dynamics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 32.3/100 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

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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

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.