Where does VM Products Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VM Products Inc. ranks #16,500 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 VM Products Inc. hold?

VM Products Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is VM Products Inc.'s Innovation Score?

VM Products Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is VM Products Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VM Products Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 VM Products Inc.'s patents?

VM Products Inc.'s patents average 15.3 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 VM Products 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

VM Products Inc.

Q: What technology areas does VM Products Inc. focus on?

VM Products Inc.'s top technology area is A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 6 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: A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VM ranks #16,500 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 6 technology areas.

#16,500
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16500 · US Corporation #16,500 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,500/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Veeam Software
CPC-NARROW A01M · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Veeam Software AG (±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
VM Products · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VM's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 VM's grants concentrate

VM Products Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, VM sits between Veeam Software AG and Vr-edu, Inc..

VM's three-year grant acceleration

VM Products Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Veeam Software

18
Vesuvius U S A

18
Virtual Hold Tech…

18
Vixar

18
Vocalzoom Systems

18
Voltronic Power T…

18
Volume Graphics

18
Vr-edu

18
VM Products ◀

18

What this shows VM holds 18 patents at rank #16,490, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VM

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,490 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01M (Catching)

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

VM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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VM Products Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	22.2%
2016	1	5.6%
2017	2	11.1%
2018	2	11.1%
2019	1	5.6%
2021	2	11.1%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	3	16.7%
2024	1	5.6%
2025partial year	1	5.6%

Which technologies does VM Products Inc. patent most?

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 16

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 9

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 7

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#16,500

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.1 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

VM Products Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VM Products Inc.'s lead technology class is A01M (Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01M
Ranked #16,500 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VM Products Inc. against Veeam Software AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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

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.