Where does Vetco Gray, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vetco Gray, LLC ranks #3,641 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 Vetco Gray, LLC hold?

Vetco Gray, LLC holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Vetco Gray, LLC's Innovation Score?

Vetco Gray, LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.2 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vetco Gray, LLC focus on?

Vetco Gray, LLC's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 92 patents, ranking #35 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vetco Gray, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vetco Gray, LLC's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Vetco Gray, LLC's patents?

Vetco Gray, LLC's patents average 17.4 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 Vetco Gray, LLC 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

Vetco Gray, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vetco ranks #3,641 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 20 technology areas.

#3,641
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.2/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3641 · US Corporation #3,641 · 101 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,641/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tepha
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tepha, Inc. (±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 Vetco’s 42.2 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 16.0 pts (38%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alcoa USA · near

42
ConnectWise · near

42
NEC Communication… · near

42
Vetco Gray · this assignee

42
Sybase · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vetco's Innovation Score is 42.2/100 (top 31% 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 Vetco?

Each dot is one of Vetco’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). Vetco’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vetco's grants concentrate

Vetco Gray, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 91.1% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (40 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Vetco sits between Tepha, Inc. and ZTE (USA) Inc..

Tepha

101
The Radio Flyer

101
The United States…

101
Thermo Fisher Sci…

101
Wahl Clipper

101
West Virginia Uni…

101
Zhongshan Broad-o…

101
ZTE (USA)

101
Vetco Gray ◀

101

What this shows Vetco holds 101 patents at rank #3,641, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vetco

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,641 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vetco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Vetco ranks #35 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

ConnectWise, LLC 42 Alcoa USA Corp. 42 NEC Communication Systems, Ltd. 42 Sybase, Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Pictometry International Corp. 17.4 avg Behr Process Corporation 17.4 avg ARM IP Limited 17.4 avg Agilent Technologies, Inc. 17.4 avg

Vetco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Vetco Gray, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	39.6%
2016	13	12.9%
2017	14	13.9%
2018	15	14.9%
2019	7	6.9%
2020	8	7.9%
2021	4	4.0%

Which technologies does Vetco Gray, LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 92

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 11

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 10

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Vetco Gray, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vetco Gray, LLC's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 91.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #3,641 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vetco Gray, LLC against Tepha, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.2/100 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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