Where does Vista Clara Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vista Clara Inc. ranks #25,514 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 Vista Clara Inc. hold?

Vista Clara Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Vista Clara Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Vista Clara Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.1 out of 100 (43rd 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 Vista Clara Inc. focus on?

Vista Clara Inc.'s top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 9 patents, ranking #106 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vista Clara Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vista Clara Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Vista Clara Inc.'s patents?

Vista Clara Inc.'s patents average 23.6 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 Vista Clara 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

Vista Clara Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vista ranks #25,514 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 4 technology areas.

#25,514
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.1/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25514 · US Corporation #25,514 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,514/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Vinglace
CPC-NARROW G01V · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vinglace, 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 Vista’s 33.1 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 8.6 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 7.1 pts (21%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (43%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delphix · near

33
Frontiir PTE · near

33
Hoshino Gakki · near

33
Snapchat · near

33
Vista Clara · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vista's Innovation Score is 33.1/100 (43rd 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 Vista?

Each dot is one of Vista’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). Vista’s own 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vista's grants concentrate

Vista Clara Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Vista sits between Vinglace, LLC and Volm Companies, Inc..

Vista's three-year grant acceleration

Vista Clara Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Vinglace

11
Virtual Strongbox

11
Vision Home Produ…

11
Vissers Battery

11
Vistaprint Schweiz

11
Vita Inclinata

11
Vivante

11
Volm Companies

11
Vista Clara ◀

11

What this shows Vista holds 11 patents at rank #25,505, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vista

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,505 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vista, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), Vista ranks #106 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Frontiir PTE Ltd. 33 Snapchat, Inc. 33 Delphix Corp. 33 Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. 33

Vista's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Vista Clara Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	18.2%
2017	3	27.3%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	1	9.1%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Vista Clara Inc. patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Vista Clara Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vista Clara Inc.'s lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #25,514 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vista Clara Inc. against Vinglace, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.1/100 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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