Where does Vesuvius Crucible Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vesuvius Crucible Company ranks #20,595 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 Vesuvius Crucible Company hold?

Vesuvius Crucible Company holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Vesuvius Crucible Company's Innovation Score?

Vesuvius Crucible Company has an Innovation Score of 29.9 out of 100 (32nd 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 Vesuvius Crucible Company focus on?

Vesuvius Crucible Company's top technology area is B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices) with 12 patents, ranking #31 of 377 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vesuvius Crucible Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vesuvius Crucible Company's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Vesuvius Crucible Company's patents?

Vesuvius Crucible Company's patents average 13.8 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 Vesuvius Crucible 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

Vesuvius Crucible Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vesuvius ranks #20,595 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#20,595
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.9/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20595 · US Corporation #20,595 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,595/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vanadis Diagnostics
CPC-FOCUS B22D · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vanadis Diagnostics (±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 Vesuvius’s 29.9 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 9.4 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vesuvius Crucible · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vesuvius's Innovation Score is 29.9/100 (32nd 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 Vesuvius?

Each dot is one of Vesuvius’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). Vesuvius’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Vesuvius's grants concentrate

Vesuvius Crucible Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Vesuvius sits between Vanadis Diagnostics and Vitop Moulding S.R.L..

Vanadis Diagnosti…

14
Vaon

14
Verint Systems UK

14
Versa Power Syste…

14
Viessmann Werke &…

14
Visottica Industr…

14
Vista Water Group

14
Vitop Moulding S…

14
Vesuvius Crucible ◀

14

What this shows Vesuvius holds 14 patents at rank #20,583, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vesuvius

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,583 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22D (Casting OF Metals)

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

Vesuvius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Vesuvius Crucible Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	4	28.6%
2017	5	35.7%
2018	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Vesuvius Crucible Company patent most?

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 2

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 1

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 1

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Vesuvius Crucible Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vesuvius Crucible Company's lead technology class is B22D (Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22D
Ranked #20,595 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vesuvius Crucible Company against Vanadis Diagnostics, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.9/100 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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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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