Where does Virgin Instruments Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Virgin Instruments Corporation ranks #27,784 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 Virgin Instruments Corporation hold?

Virgin Instruments Corporation holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Virgin Instruments Corporation's Innovation Score?

Virgin Instruments Corporation has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Virgin Instruments Corporation focus on?

Virgin Instruments Corporation's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 9 patents, ranking #228 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Virgin Instruments Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Virgin Instruments Corporation's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Virgin Instruments Corporation's patents?

Virgin Instruments Corporation's patents average 25.8 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 Virgin Instruments Corporation 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

Virgin Instruments Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Virgin ranks #27,784 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#27,784
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 25.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27784 · US Corporation #27,784 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,784/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Victory Industrial
CPC-NARROW H01J · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Victory Industrial Corporation (±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 Virgin’s 32.0 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 8.3 pts (26%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 7.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (47%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Virgin Instruments · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Virgin's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 Virgin?

Each dot is one of Virgin’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). Virgin’s own 25.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 19.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Virgin's grants concentrate

Virgin Instruments Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Virgin sits between Victory Industrial Corporation and VisionGate, Inc..

Virgin's three-year grant acceleration

Virgin Instruments Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Victory Industrial

10
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10
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10
Virewirx

10
Virginia Polytech…

10
Viridity Energy

10
Virtual Radiologic

10
Visiongate

10
Virgin Instruments ◀

10

What this shows Virgin holds 10 patents at rank #27,783, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Virgin

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,783 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Virgin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% 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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Virgin Instruments Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2016	2	20.0%
2017	2	20.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2021	3	30.0%
2022	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Virgin Instruments Corporation patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Virgin Instruments Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Virgin Instruments Corporation's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #27,784 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Virgin Instruments Corporation against Victory Industrial Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.