Where does VPI Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VPI Corporation ranks #20,610 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does VPI Corporation hold?

VPI Corporation holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2021, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is VPI Corporation's Innovation Score?

VPI Corporation has an Innovation Score of 9.9 out of 100 (top 99% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does VPI Corporation focus on?

VPI Corporation holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is VPI Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

VPI Corporation's recent grant velocity is -83% 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 VPI Corporation's patents?

VPI Corporation's patents average 1.0 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 VPI Corporation 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

VPI Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2021. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, VPI ranks #20,610 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 0 technology areas.

#20,610
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 99%
by Innovation Score (9.9/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20610 · US Corporation #20,610 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,610/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Valve Solutions
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 9.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valve Solutions, 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
VPI · this assignee

10
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows VPI's Innovation Score is 9.9/100 (top 99% 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 VPI's grants concentrate

VPI Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, VPI sits between Visottica Industrie S.p.a. and Vantis Vascular, Inc..

Visottica Industr…

14
Vista Water Group

14
Vitop Moulding S…

14
Voip-pal COM

14
Valve Solutions

14
Van Zanten Plants…

14
Vangogh Imaging

14
Vantis Vascular

14
VPI ◀

14

What this shows VPI holds 14 patents at rank #20,589, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VPI

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,589 in granted patent volume.

VPI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

10 Top 99% higher than 1% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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VPI Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	9	64.3%
2018	3	21.4%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,610

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

9.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.