Where does Visualant, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Visualant, Inc. ranks #43,967 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 Visualant, Inc. hold?

Visualant, Inc. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Visualant, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Visualant, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 27.9 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Visualant, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Visualant, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Visualant, Inc.'s patents?

Visualant, Inc.'s patents average 29.5 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 Visualant, 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

Visualant, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Visualant, Inc. focus on?

Visualant, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Visualant ranks #43,967 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 3 technology areas.

#43,967
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.9/100): 29.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43967 · US Corporation #43,967 · 6 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,967/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ViskoTeepak Belgium
CPC-NARROW G01N · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 29.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ViskoTeepak Belgium NV (±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
Visualant · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Visualant's Innovation Score is 27.9/100 (25th 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.

Where Visualant's grants concentrate

Visualant, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Visualant sits between ViskoTeepak Belgium NV and Vivante Health, Inc..

Viskoteepak Belgi…

6
Visplay Internati…

6
Visual Defence

6
Visual Graphic Sy…

6
Vitaeris

6
Vitec Videocom

6
Viv Labs

6
Vivante Health

6
Visualant ◀

6

What this shows Visualant holds 6 patents at rank #43,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Visualant

By rank, the assignees closest to #43,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Visualant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Visualant, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	33.3%
2016	1	16.7%
2017	2	33.3%
2018	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Visualant, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#43,967

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.9 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

Visualant, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Visualant, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #43,967 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Visualant, Inc. against ViskoTeepak Belgium NV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.9/100 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.