Where does Victor Equipment Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Victor Equipment Company ranks #4,744 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 Victor Equipment Company hold?

Victor Equipment Company holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Victor Equipment Company's Innovation Score?

Victor Equipment Company has an Innovation Score of 37.2 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Victor Equipment Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Victor Equipment Company's recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Victor Equipment Company's patents?

Victor Equipment Company's patents average 13.9 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 Victor Equipment 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

Victor Equipment Company

Q: What technology areas does Victor Equipment Company focus on?

Victor Equipment Company's top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 38 patents, ranking #51 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 granted patents across 13 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Victor ranks #4,744 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 13 technology areas.

#4,744
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4744 · US Corporation #4,744 · 74 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,744/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Teijin Pharma
CPC-FOCUS B23K · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Teijin Pharma 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 Victor’s 37.2 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 14.9 pts (40%) Velocity 1.2 pts (3%) Breadth 12.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bayer Oy · near

37
Johnstech Internatio… · near

37
Rackspace US · near

37
uniQure IP B V · near

37
Victor Equipment · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Victor's Innovation Score is 37.2/100 (top 44% 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 Victor?

Each dot is one of Victor’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). Victor’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Victor's grants concentrate

Victor Equipment Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 51.4% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Victor sits between Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. and Zound Industries International AB.

Victor's three-year grant acceleration

Victor Equipment Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Teva Pharmaceutic…

74
Teijin Pharma

74
Tokyo Seimitsu

74
Universite Paris-…

74
WM Intellectual P…

74
Wuhan Xinxin Semi…

74
Yachiyo Industry

74
Zound Industries…

74
Victor Equipment ◀

74

What this shows Victor holds 74 patents at rank #4,744, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Victor

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,744 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Victor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering), Victor ranks #51 of 1,623 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Rackspace US, Inc. 37 Johnstech International Corporation 37 Bayer Oy 37 uniQure IP B.V. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG 13.9 avg KPR U.S., LLC 13.9 avg M. Technique Co., Ltd. 13.8 avg Diehl Aerospace GmbH 13.9 avg

Victor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% 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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Victor Equipment Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	32.4%
2016	20	27.0%
2017	5	6.8%
2018	11	14.9%
2019	5	6.8%
2020	3	4.1%
2021	3	4.1%
2022	1	1.4%
2023	1	1.4%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Victor Equipment Company patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 38

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 12

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 6

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F23D - Burners 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

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

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Victor Equipment Company's lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 51.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #4,744 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Victor Equipment Company against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.2/100 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

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