Where does VKR Holding A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VKR Holding A/S ranks #2,923 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 VKR Holding A/S hold?

VKR Holding A/S holds 131 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is VKR Holding A/S's Innovation Score?

VKR Holding A/S has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is VKR Holding A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VKR Holding A/S's recent grant velocity is +14% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for VKR Holding A/S's patents?

VKR Holding A/S's patents average 15.6 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 VKR Holding A/S 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 Foreign Corporation

VKR Holding A/S

Q: What technology areas does VKR Holding A/S focus on?

VKR Holding A/S's top technology area is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates) with 79 patents. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 131 granted patents across 43 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: E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VKR ranks #2,923 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 131 patents across 43 technology areas.

#2,923
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2923 · Foreign Corporation #2,923 · 131 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 131 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,923/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH St Jude Children's…
CPC-WIDE E06B · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Board of Trustees… · near

58
Level 3 Communications · near

58
Skywave Networks · near

58
VKR Holding A/S · this assignee

58
Owens-Brockway… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VKR's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 VKR's grants concentrate

VKR Holding A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 60.3% of grants classified under E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, VKR sits between St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc. and Crown Packaging Technology, Inc..

VKR's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, VKR Holding A/S moved from 29 to 38 grants (1.31x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #634. See the growth leaderboard.

St Jude Children'…

131
St Jude Medical

131
THE Code

131
The Raymond

131
Xiamen University

131
VKR Holding A/S ◀

131
Alcon Research

130
Butterfly Network

130
Crown Packaging T…

130

What this shows VKR holds 131 patents at rank #2,923, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VKR

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,923 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Level 3 Communications, LLC 58 Skywave Networks LLC 58 Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas 58 Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Shpp Global Technologies B.V. 15.6 avg Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. 15.6 avg Cellectis 15.6 avg Toshiba Memory Corporation 15.6 avg

VKR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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VKR Holding A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	14.5%
2016	15	11.5%
2017	6	4.6%
2018	2	1.5%
2019	9	6.9%
2020	8	6.1%
2021	12	9.2%
2022	9	6.9%
2023	10	7.6%
2024	19	14.5%
2025partial year	22	16.8%

Which technologies does VKR Holding A/S patent most?

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 79

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 66

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 43

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 40

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 9

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 8

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 6

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 5

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 4

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 3

Top 15 of 43 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,923

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.1 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

VKR Holding A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VKR Holding A/S's lead technology class is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates), 60.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E06B
Ranked #2,923 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VKR Holding A/S against St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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.

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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

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