Where does Vicon Machinery LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vicon Machinery LLC ranks #30,556 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 Vicon Machinery LLC hold?

Vicon Machinery LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Vicon Machinery LLC's Innovation Score?

Vicon Machinery LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.8 out of 100 (36th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vicon Machinery LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vicon Machinery LLC's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Vicon Machinery LLC's patents?

Vicon Machinery LLC's patents average 18.1 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 Vicon Machinery 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

Vicon Machinery LLC

Q: What technology areas does Vicon Machinery LLC focus on?

Vicon Machinery LLC's top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 8 patents, ranking #75 of 818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vicon ranks #30,556 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 6 technology areas.

#30,556
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 36th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.8/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30556 · US Corporation #30,556 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,556/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vetco Gray U K
CPC-NARROW B21D · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vetco Gray U.K. Limited (±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 Vicon’s 30.8 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 8.0 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 8.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vicon Machinery · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vicon's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (36th 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 Vicon?

Each dot is one of Vicon’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). Vicon’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vicon's grants concentrate

Vicon Machinery LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Vicon sits between Vetco Gray U.K. Limited and Visualase, Inc..

Vicon's three-year grant acceleration

Vicon Machinery LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Vetco Gray U K

9
Vets Plus

9
Vizn Energy Syste…

9
Vibrant Composites

9
Virtual Electric

9
Vision Extrusions

9
Vision Global Hol…

9
Visualase

9
Vicon Machinery ◀

9

What this shows Vicon holds 9 patents at rank #30,539, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,539 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Vicon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 36th percentile higher than 36% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

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

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Vicon Machinery LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	22.2%
2017	1	11.1%
2018	3	33.3%
2020	1	11.1%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Vicon Machinery LLC patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 8

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 5

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Vicon Machinery LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vicon Machinery LLC's lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #30,556 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vicon Machinery LLC against Vetco Gray U.K. Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.8/100 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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