Where does Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH ranks #18,271 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's Innovation Score?

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH has an Innovation Score of 34.0 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's patents?

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's patents average 9.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH

Q: How many patents does Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH hold?

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH focus on?

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's top technology area is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours) with 3 patents, ranking #505 of 2,030 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH 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 PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vitronic ranks #18,271 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 15 technology areas.

#18,271
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.0/100): 9.2
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18271 · Foreign Corporation #18,271 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,271/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Valco Instruments
CPC-FOCUS G01B · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valco Instruments Company, Inc. (±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 Vitronic’s 34.0 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 9.8 pts (29%) Velocity 5.0 pts (15%) Breadth 13.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lek Pharmaceuticals… · near

34
Magnacom · near

34
Mips Tech · near

34
Phillips Screw · near

34
Vitronic Dr -Ing… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vitronic's Innovation Score is 34.0/100 (46th 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 Vitronic?

Each dot is one of Vitronic’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). Vitronic’s own 9.2 claims/patent is at or below the 13.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Vitronic's grants concentrate

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 18.8% of grants classified under G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Vitronic sits between Veritone, Inc. and ValenTx, Inc..

Vitronic's three-year grant acceleration

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH shows 3 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.

Veritone

16
Victor Stanley

16
Vishay Semiconduc…

16
Vision Quest Indu…

16
Vtech Telecommuni…

16
VTT Technical Res…

16
Valco Instruments

16
Valentx

16
Vitronic Dr -Ing… ◀

16

What this shows Vitronic holds 16 patents at rank #18,256, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vitronic

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,256 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01B (Measuring Length)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vitronic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01B (Measuring Length), Vitronic ranks #505 of 2,030 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Phillips Screw Company 34 Magnacom Ltd. 34 Mips Tech, LLC 34 Lek Pharmaceuticals d. d. 34

Vitronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	12.5%
2016	2	12.5%
2017	2	12.5%
2018	1	6.3%
2019	2	12.5%
2020	2	12.5%
2022	1	6.3%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	1	6.3%
2025partial year	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH patent most?

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

E01F - Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

A43D - Machines, Tools, Equipment OR Methods FOR Manufacturing OR Repairing Footwear 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH's lead technology class is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours), 18.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01B
Ranked #18,271 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH against Veritone, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.0/100 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

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