Where does Victaulic Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Victaulic Company ranks #1,948 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 Victaulic Company hold?

Victaulic Company holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Victaulic Company's Innovation Score?

Victaulic Company has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Victaulic Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Victaulic Company's recent grant velocity is +19% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Victaulic Company's patents?

Victaulic Company's patents average 16.1 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 Victaulic 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

Victaulic Company

Q: What technology areas does Victaulic Company focus on?

Victaulic Company's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 77 patents, ranking #7 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 23 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Victaulic ranks #1,948 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 23 technology areas.

#1,948
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1948 · US Corporation #1,948 · 207 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,948/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Swimc
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Swimc 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 Victaulic’s 49.6 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 18.4 pts (37%) Velocity 4.5 pts (9%) Breadth 17.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Aisin Technical… · near

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Kinki University · near

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ScienBiziP Consultin… · near

50
Shenzhen Reolink… · near

50
Victaulic · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Victaulic's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Victaulic?

Each dot is one of Victaulic’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). Victaulic’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Victaulic's grants concentrate

Victaulic Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 37.2% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (33 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2017. By volume, Victaulic sits between Swimc LLC and Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc..

Victaulic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Victaulic Company moved from 78 to 53 grants (0.68x 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 #2,216. See the growth leaderboard.

Swimc

207
TDK

207
Transform SR Bran…

207
Tungaloy

207
Victaulic ◀

207
AVX

206
Daihen

206
Kddi

206
Lululemon Athleti…

206

What this shows Victaulic holds 207 patents at rank #1,948, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Victaulic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,948 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Victaulic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16L (Pipes), Victaulic ranks #7 of 1,907 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. 50 Aisin Technical Center of America, Inc. 50 Kinki University 50 Shenzhen Reolink Technology Co., Ltd. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Juul Labs, Inc. 16.1 avg Rakuten Mobile, Inc. 16.1 avg Translate BIO, Inc. 16.1 avg NuVasive, Inc. 16.1 avg

Victaulic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Victaulic Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	7.2%
2016	26	12.6%
2017	4	1.9%
2018	17	8.2%
2019	26	12.6%
2020	33	15.9%
2021	19	9.2%
2022	14	6.8%
2023	20	9.7%
2024	19	9.2%
2025partial year	14	6.8%

Which technologies does Victaulic Company patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 77

A62C - Fire-fighting 50

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 27

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

B21H - Making Particular Metal Objects BY Rolling, e.g. Screws, Wheels, Rings, Barrels, Balls 14

F16H - Gearing 13

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 13

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 6

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 4

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 3

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Victaulic Company's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 37.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #1,948 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Victaulic Company against Swimc LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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.

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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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