Where does Veeder-Root Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Veeder-Root Company ranks #23,627 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 Veeder-Root Company hold?

Veeder-Root Company holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Veeder-Root Company's Innovation Score?

Veeder-Root Company has an Innovation Score of 34.1 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Veeder-Root Company focus on?

Veeder-Root Company's top technology area is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 12 patents, ranking #39 of 469 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Veeder-Root Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Veeder-Root Company's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Veeder-Root Company's patents?

Veeder-Root Company's patents average 16.1 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 Veeder-Root Company 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

Veeder-Root Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Veeder-root ranks #23,627 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#23,627
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.1/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23627 · US Corporation #23,627 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,627/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Valeo Radar Systems
CPC-NARROW B67D · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valeo Radar Systems, 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 Veeder-root’s 34.1 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 (26%) Velocity 5.0 pts (15%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Veeder-Root · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Veeder-root's Innovation Score is 34.1/100 (47th 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 Veeder-root?

Each dot is one of Veeder-root’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). Veeder-root’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Veeder-root's grants concentrate

Veeder-Root Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Veeder-root sits between Valeo Radar Systems, Inc. and Veryan Medical Limited.

Veeder-root's three-year grant acceleration

Veeder-Root Company shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Valeo Radar Syste…

12
Valor Communicati…

12
Vasu Networks

12
Veeco ALD

12
Vego Garden

12
Velossa Tech Engi…

12
Veris

12
Veryan Medical

12
Veeder-root ◀

12

What this shows Veeder-Root holds 12 patents at rank #23,630, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Veeder-Root

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,630 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B67D (Dispensing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Veeder-Root's primary technology class.

Veeder-root's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Veeder-Root Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	33.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Veeder-Root Company patent most?

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

B01D - Separation 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

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

Veeder-Root Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Veeder-Root Company's lead technology class is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B67D
Ranked #23,627 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Veeder-Root Company against Valeo Radar Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.1/100 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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