Where does Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S ranks #38,221 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 Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S hold?

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's Innovation Score?

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S 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%).

What technology areas does Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S focus on?

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 6 patents, ranking #129 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's patents?

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's patents average 24.4 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 Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S 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

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Viking ranks #38,221 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 6 technology areas.

#38,221
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38221 · Foreign Corporation #38,221 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,221/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vidac Pharma
CPC-NARROW B63B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vidac Pharma 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.

How Viking’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 7.2 pts (19%) Velocity 6.7 pts (18%) Breadth 8.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 14.7 pts (39%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Viking Life-Saving… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Viking'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 Viking?

Each dot is one of Viking’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). Viking’s own 24.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 19.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Viking's grants concentrate

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Viking sits between Vidac Pharma Ltd.. and Vilter Manufacturing LLC.

Viking's three-year grant acceleration

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Vidac Pharma

7
Videokawa

7
Vietnam National…

7
Viking Genetics F…

7
Viking Power Syst…

7
Viking Scientific

7
Viktor Veniaminov…

7
Vilter Manufactur…

7
Viking Life-savin… ◀

7

What this shows Viking holds 7 patents at rank #38,212, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Viking

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,212 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Viking'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 · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	28.6%
2016	2	28.6%
2017	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 6

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 6

A62C - Fire-fighting 1

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #38,221 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S against Vidac Pharma 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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