Where does Visual Supply Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Visual Supply Company ranks #20,604 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Visual Supply Company hold?

Visual Supply Company holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Visual Supply Company's Innovation Score?

Visual Supply Company has an Innovation Score of 30.8 out of 100 (top 64% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Visual Supply Company focus on?

Visual Supply Company's top technology area is G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Visual Supply Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Visual Supply Company's recent grant velocity is -73% 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 Visual Supply Company's patents?

Visual Supply Company's patents average 17.6 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 Visual Supply 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

Visual Supply Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Visual ranks #20,604 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 6 technology areas.

#20,604
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 64%
by Innovation Score (30.8/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20604 · US Corporation #20,604 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,604/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Viessmann Climate So…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Viessmann Climate Solutions SE (±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
Graphtec · near

31
Storart Technology · near

31
De'longhi Braun Hous… · near

31
General Plastic Indu… · near

31
Visual Supply · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Visual's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (top 64% 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 Visual's grants concentrate

Visual Supply Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Visual sits between Viessmann Climate Solutions SE and W.h.p.m Bioresearch AND Technology Co., Ltd..

Viessmann Climate…

14
Vireo Systems

14
Virginia Panel

14
Virun

14
Vive Crop Protect…

14
Voicify

14
Volvo Autonomous…

14
W H P M Bioresear…

14
Visual Supply ◀

14

What this shows Visual holds 14 patents at rank #20,602, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Visual

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,602 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital DATA Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. 31 De'longhi Braun Household Gmbh 31 Graphtec Corporation 31 Storart Technology Co., Ltd. 31

Visual's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 64% higher than 36% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Visual Supply Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	4	28.6%
2018	3	21.4%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	2	14.3%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Visual Supply Company patent most?

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 10

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 8

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 7

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 3

G11B - INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER 3

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,604

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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