Where does Verifood, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verifood, Ltd. ranks #8,712 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 Verifood, Ltd. hold?

Verifood, Ltd. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Verifood, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Verifood, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 40.1 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Verifood, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Verifood, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -5% 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 Verifood, Ltd.'s patents?

Verifood, Ltd.'s patents average 17.8 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 Verifood, Ltd. 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

Verifood, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Verifood, Ltd. focus on?

Verifood, Ltd.'s top technology area is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry) with 33 patents, ranking #24 of 1,478 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Verifood ranks #8,712 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 11 technology areas.

#8,712
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.1/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8712 · Foreign Corporation #8,712 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,712/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Valeda
CPC-FOCUS G01J · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valeda Company, LLC (±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 Verifood’s 40.1 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 12.6 pts (31%) Velocity 5.1 pts (13%) Breadth 11.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cummins Generator · near

40
Datalogic ADC · near

40
Keppel Offshore &… · near

40
M-I Drilling Fluids UK · near

40
Verifood · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verifood's Innovation Score is 40.1/100 (top 36% 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 Verifood?

Each dot is one of Verifood’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). Verifood’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Verifood's grants concentrate

Verifood, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 89.2% of grants classified under G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Verifood sits between Valent U.S.A., LLC and WARTSILÄ Finland OY.

Verifood's three-year grant acceleration

Verifood, Ltd. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Valent U

37
Vizit Labs

37
Valeda

37
Valencia

37
Virdia

37
Visterra

37
Vitro B de C V

37
WartsilÄ Finland…

37
Verifood ◀

37

What this shows Verifood holds 37 patents at rank #8,712, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Verifood

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,712 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01J (Measurement OF Intensity)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Verifood, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01J (Measurement OF Intensity), Verifood ranks #24 of 1,478 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Cummins Generator Technologies Limited 40 Datalogic ADC, Inc. 40 Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd 40 M-I Drilling Fluids UK Limited 40

Verifood's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Verifood, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	7	18.9%
2017	3	8.1%
2018	4	10.8%
2019	5	13.5%
2020	5	13.5%
2021	3	8.1%
2022	4	10.8%
2023	4	10.8%
2024	2	5.4%

Which technologies does Verifood, Ltd. patent most?

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 33

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

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

Top 11 of 11 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

Verifood, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Verifood, Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry), 89.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01J
Ranked #8,712 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verifood, Ltd. against Valent U.S.A., LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.