Where does Velodyne Lidar, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Velodyne Lidar, Inc. ranks #15,743 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 Velodyne Lidar, Inc. hold?

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2023, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +38% 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 Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s patents?

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s patents average 21.3 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 Velodyne Lidar, 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

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Velodyne Lidar, Inc. focus on?

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 17 patents, ranking #351 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2023. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Velodyne ranks #15,743 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 15 technology areas.

#15,743
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 21.3
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15743 · US Corporation #15,743 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,743/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ultra
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ultra Electronics Limited (±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 Velodyne’s 37.3 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 10.3 pts (28%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 13.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Velodyne Lidar · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Velodyne's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Velodyne?

Each dot is one of Velodyne’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). Velodyne’s own 21.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Velodyne's grants concentrate

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 89.5% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Velodyne sits between Ultra Electronics Limited and Vivaquant, Inc..

Velodyne's three-year grant acceleration

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Ultra

19
Unified Complianc…

19
University of Nor…

19
Utah Valley Unive…

19
VIA Telecom

19
Viant Technology

19
Virnect

19
Vivaquant

19
Velodyne Lidar ◀

19

What this shows Velodyne holds 19 patents at rank #15,736, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Velodyne

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,736 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Velodyne's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2023

Grants by year

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

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Velodyne Lidar, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	21.1%
2019	4	21.1%
2020	10	52.6%
2023	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Velodyne Lidar, Inc. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 17

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 89.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #15,743 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Velodyne Lidar, Inc. against Ultra Electronics Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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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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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