Where does VMI Holland B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VMI Holland B.V. ranks #3,613 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 VMI Holland B.V. hold?

VMI Holland B.V. holds 102 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is VMI Holland B.V.'s Innovation Score?

VMI Holland B.V. has an Innovation Score of 59.2 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is VMI Holland B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VMI Holland B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +148% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for VMI Holland B.V.'s patents?

VMI Holland B.V.'s patents average 24.6 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 VMI Holland B.V. 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

VMI Holland B.V.

Q: What technology areas does VMI Holland B.V. focus on?

VMI Holland B.V.'s top technology area is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State) with 76 patents. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 102 granted patents across 36 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: B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VMI ranks #3,613 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 102 patents across 36 technology areas.

#3,613
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.2/100): 24.6
avg claims per patent: +148%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3613 · Foreign Corporation #3,613 · 102 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 102 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,613/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sumitomo Dainippon…
CPC-FOCUS B29D · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +148% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. (±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
Rohm and Haas · near

59
Ascensia Diabetes… · near

59
Gigaphoton · near

59
Lubrizol Advanced… · near

59
VMI Holland B V · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows VMI's Innovation Score is 59.2/100 (top 4% 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 VMI's grants concentrate

VMI Holland B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 74.5% of grants classified under B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, VMI sits between Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. and Amsted Rail Company, Inc..

VMI's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, VMI Holland B.V. moved from 35 to 38 grants (1.09x 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 #988. See the growth leaderboard.

Sumitomo Dainippo…

102
Super Micro Compu…

102
Tonal Systems

102
Technische Univer…

102
Veolia Water Solu…

102
Woojin Plastic

102
Wabash National

102
VMI Holland B V ◀

102
Amsted Rail

101

What this shows VMI holds 102 patents at rank #3,612, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VMI

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,612 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. 59 Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG 59 Gigaphoton Inc. 59 Rohm and Haas Company 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.6 here).

Rani Therapeutics, LLC 24.6 avg Restoration Robotics, Inc. 24.6 avg Tula eTechnology, Inc. 24.5 avg Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. 24.6 avg

VMI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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VMI Holland B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.9%
2016	2	2.0%
2017	4	3.9%
2018	5	4.9%
2019	11	10.8%
2020	9	8.8%
2021	15	14.7%
2022	13	12.7%
2023	12	11.8%
2024	13	12.7%
2025partial year	15	14.7%

Which technologies does VMI Holland B.V. patent most?

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 76

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 19

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 18

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 18

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 11

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 10

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 10

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 7

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

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

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 36 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,613

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.2 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

VMI Holland B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VMI Holland B.V.'s lead technology class is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State), 74.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29D
Ranked #3,613 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VMI Holland B.V. against Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.2/100 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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