Where does Videojet Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Videojet Technologies Inc. ranks #3,949 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 Videojet Technologies Inc. hold?

Videojet Technologies Inc. holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Videojet Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Videojet Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Videojet Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Videojet Technologies Inc.'s patents?

Videojet Technologies Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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 Videojet 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 US Corporation

Videojet Technologies Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Videojet Technologies Inc. focus on?

Videojet Technologies Inc.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 59 patents. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 28 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Videojet ranks #3,949 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 28 technology areas.

#3,949
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3949 · US Corporation #3,949 · 92 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,949/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shin-Etsu Polymer
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Areva NP · near

47
GC · near

47
The Hershey · near

47
Université Paris—Est… · near

47
Videojet · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Videojet's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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.

Where Videojet's grants concentrate

Videojet Technologies Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 64.1% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (18 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2022. By volume, Videojet sits between Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. and Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Videojet's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Videojet Technologies Inc. moved from 27 to 10 grants (0.37x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shin-etsu Polymer

92
Tsann Kuen (Zhang…

92
UPL

92
Veeco Instruments

92
Watts Regulator

92
Willis Electric

92
Videojet ◀

92
Abiomed Europe

91
Agios Pharmaceuti…

91

What this shows Videojet holds 92 patents at rank #3,949, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Videojet

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,949 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Videojet, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

GC Corporation 47 Areva NP 47 The Hershey Company 47 Université Paris—Est Créteil Val de Marne 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Savant Systems, Inc. 17.1 avg Thomas & Betts International LLC 17.1 avg Materion Corporation 17.1 avg GE Avio S.R.L. 17.1 avg

Videojet's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Videojet Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	17.4%
2016	8	8.7%
2017	18	19.6%
2018	9	9.8%
2019	9	9.8%
2020	8	8.7%
2021	10	10.9%
2022	5	5.4%
2024	5	5.4%
2025partial year	4	4.3%

Which technologies does Videojet Technologies Inc. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 59

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 13

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 2

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,949

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Videojet Technologies Inc.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 64.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #3,949 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Videojet Technologies Inc. against Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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