Where does Veeco ALD Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Veeco ALD Inc. ranks #23,626 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 Veeco ALD Inc. hold?

Veeco ALD Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Veeco ALD Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Veeco ALD Inc. has an Innovation Score of 25.8 out of 100 (18th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Veeco ALD Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Veeco ALD Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Veeco ALD Inc.'s patents?

Veeco ALD Inc.'s patents average 11.6 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 Veeco ALD 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

Veeco ALD Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Veeco ALD Inc. focus on?

Veeco ALD Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 10 patents, ranking #255 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Veeco ranks #23,626 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 8 technology areas.

#23,626
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 18th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.8/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23626 · US Corporation #23,626 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,626/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vacular Solutions
CPC-NARROW C23C · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vacular Solutions, 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 Veeco’s 25.8 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 8.9 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Veeco ALD · this assignee

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Veeco's Innovation Score is 25.8/100 (18th 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 Veeco?

Each dot is one of Veeco’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). Veeco’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Veeco's grants concentrate

Veeco ALD Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Veeco sits between Vacular Solutions, Inc. and Veris Technologies, Inc..

Vacular Solutions

12
Valeo Radar Syste…

12
Valor Communicati…

12
Vasu Networks

12
Veeder-root

12
Vego Garden

12
Velossa Tech Engi…

12
Veris

12
Veeco ALD ◀

12

What this shows Veeco holds 12 patents at rank #23,629, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Veeco

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,629 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Veeco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 18th percentile higher than 18% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Veeco ALD Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	58.3%
2016	2	16.7%
2017	3	25.0%

Which technologies does Veeco ALD Inc. patent most?

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 10

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Veeco ALD Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Veeco ALD Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Evap), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #23,626 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Veeco ALD Inc. against Vacular Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.8/100 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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