Where does Velcro Bvba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Velcro Bvba ranks #6,403 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 Velcro Bvba hold?

Velcro Bvba holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Velcro Bvba's Innovation Score?

Velcro Bvba has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Velcro Bvba focus on?

Velcro Bvba's top technology area is A44B (Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like) with 27 patents, ranking #5 of 276 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

Is Velcro Bvba's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Velcro Bvba's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Velcro Bvba's patents?

Velcro Bvba's patents average 18.4 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 Velcro Bvba 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

Velcro Bvba

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: A44B (Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Velcro ranks #6,403 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 45 technology areas.

#6,403
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6403 · Foreign Corporation #6,403 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,403/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University of Limerick
CPC-WIDE A44B · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University of Limerick (±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 Velcro’s 48.5 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 13.8 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 23.7 pts (49%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anteris · near

49
Beken · near

49
Belron International · near

49
Nidec PSA Emotors · near

49
Velcro Bvba · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Velcro's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Velcro?

Each dot is one of Velcro’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). Velcro’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Velcro's grants concentrate

Velcro Bvba is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 50.9% of grants classified under A44B (Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Velcro sits between University of Limerick and Zhejiang Shenghui Lighting Co., Ltd..

University of Lim…

53
Unwired Planet

53
Veoneer Sweden AB

53
Varcode

53
Virtuozzo Interna…

53
Weichai Power

53
Yuan ZE University

53
Zhejiang Shenghui…

53
Velcro Bvba ◀

53

What this shows Velcro holds 53 patents at rank #6,402, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Velcro

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,402 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A44B (Buttons)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Velcro, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A44B (Buttons), Velcro ranks #5 of 276 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Beken Corporation 49 Belron International Limited 49 Anteris Technologies Corporation 49 Nidec PSA Emotors 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP 18.4 avg Oxford University Innovation Limited 18.4 avg Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. 18.4 avg Corning Incorporated 18.4 avg

Velcro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Velcro Bvba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	11.3%
2017	14	26.4%
2018	10	18.9%
2019	7	13.2%
2020	14	26.4%
2021	2	3.8%

Which technologies does Velcro Bvba patent most?

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 27

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 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 14

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 7

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 7

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 5

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 3

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 3

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 3

Top 15 of 45 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

Velcro Bvba's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Velcro Bvba's lead technology class is A44B (Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like), 50.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A44B
Ranked #6,403 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Velcro Bvba against University of Limerick, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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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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