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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VIA Technologies, Inc. ranks #1,316 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 VIA Technologies, Inc. hold?

VIA Technologies, Inc. holds 323 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is VIA Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

VIA Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does VIA Technologies, Inc. focus on?

VIA Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 210 patents, ranking #297 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

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

VIA Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -84% 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 VIA Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

VIA Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 VIA 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 Foreign Corporation

VIA Technologies, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 323 granted patents across 47 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VIA ranks #1,316 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 323 patents across 47 technology areas.

#1,316
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1316 · Foreign Corporation #1,316 · 323 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 323 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,316/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crown Equipment
CPC-WIDE G06F · 47 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crown Equipment Corporation (±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 VIA’s 57.2 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 20.0 pts (35%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 24.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Automotive… · near

57
Kunlunxin Technology… · near

57
Bauer Hockey · near

57
Nordex Energy SE & KG · near

57
VIA · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VIA's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 VIA?

Each dot is one of VIA’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). VIA’s own 17.6 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where VIA's grants concentrate

VIA Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 65% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (81 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2022. By volume, VIA sits between Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. and LinkedIn Corporation.

VIA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, VIA Technologies, Inc. moved from 60 to 22 grants (0.37x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,920. See the growth leaderboard.

Virginia Tech Int…

324
Crown Equipment

323
Rosemount

323
Trimble

323
Verisign

323
VIA ◀

323
Korea Institute O…

322
Karl Storz & KG

322
Linkedin

322

What this shows VIA holds 323 patents at rank #1,315, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VIA

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,315 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for VIA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), VIA ranks #297 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Bauer Hockey LLC 57 Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG 57 Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. 57 Kunlunxin Technology (BEIJING) Company Limited 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Janssen Biotech, Inc. 17.6 avg Cfph, LLC 17.6 avg NEW York University 17.6 avg Fastly, Inc. 17.6 avg

VIA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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VIA Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	81	25.1%
2016	67	20.7%
2017	46	14.2%
2018	46	14.2%
2019	38	11.8%
2020	15	4.6%
2021	7	2.2%
2022	6	1.9%
2023	8	2.5%
2024	8	2.5%
2025partial year	1	0.3%

Which technologies does VIA Technologies, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 210

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 44

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 43

G11C - Static Stores 26

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 18

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 15

H03K - Pulse Technique 14

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 8

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 8

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 8

Top 15 of 47 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

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

VIA Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,316 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VIA Technologies, Inc. against Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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

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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