Where does Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. ranks #13,770 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 Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. hold?

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 16.6 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 Veolia Water Technologies, 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

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 17 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Veolia ranks #13,770 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 11 technology areas.

#13,770
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13770 · US Corporation #13,770 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,770/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vandewiele
CPC-FOCUS C02F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vandewiele NV (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gibson Brands · near

32
Intercept Pharmaceut… · near

32
Intelligent… · near

32
Talari Networks… · near

32
Veolia Water · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Veolia's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (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.

Where Veolia's grants concentrate

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 77.3% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Veolia sits between Vode Lighting LLC and Vivasure Medical Limited.

Vode Lighting

22
Vtech

22
Vandewiele

22
Vascular Pathways

22
Vhernier S p A

22
Vinyl Development

22
Virtuix Holdings

22
Vivasure Medical

22
Veolia Water ◀

22

What this shows Veolia holds 22 patents at rank #13,771, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Veolia

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,771 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Veolia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Intelligent Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC 32 Talari Networks Incorporated 32 Gibson Brands, Inc. 32 Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 32

Veolia'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

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.5%
2016	3	13.6%
2017	2	9.1%
2018	5	22.7%
2019	4	18.2%
2020	4	18.2%
2021	2	9.1%
2025partial year	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 17

B01D - Separation 12

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 10

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 7

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

B09C - Reclamation OF Contaminated Soil 1

B04B - Centrifuges 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,770

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 77.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #13,770 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Veolia Water Technologies, Inc. against Vode Lighting LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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

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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