Where does Vulcan Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vulcan Inc. ranks #10,227 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 Vulcan Inc. hold?

Vulcan Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Vulcan Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Vulcan Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vulcan Inc. focus on?

Vulcan Inc.'s top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 17 patents, ranking #807 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

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

Vulcan Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +420% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vulcan Inc.'s patents?

Vulcan Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Vulcan 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

Vulcan Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vulcan ranks #10,227 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 26 technology areas.

#10,227
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +420%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10227 · US Corporation #10,227 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,227/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH VeroScience
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +420% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: VeroScience LLC (±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 Vulcan’s 45.1 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 12.0 pts (27%) Velocity 3.5 pts (8%) Breadth 18.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accuride International · near

45
Establishment Labs · near

45
Flir Systems AB · near

45
Thermo Electron… · near

45
Vulcan · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vulcan's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 Vulcan?

Each dot is one of Vulcan’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). Vulcan’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vulcan's grants concentrate

Vulcan Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 54.8% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Vulcan sits between VeroScience LLC and Wastequip, LLC.

Vulcan's three-year grant acceleration

Vulcan Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Veroscience

31
Visy R & D Pty

31
Vita Zahnfabrik H…

31
Volvik

31
Wonik IPS

31
Wuhan BOE Optoele…

31
Waddington North…

31
Wastequip

31
Vulcan ◀

31

What this shows Vulcan holds 31 patents at rank #10,226, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vulcan

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,226 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vulcan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Vulcan ranks #807 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Establishment Labs S.A. 45 Accuride International GmbH 45 Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC 45 Flir Systems AB 45

Vulcan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Vulcan Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.2%
2018	1	3.2%
2019	3	9.7%
2020	6	19.4%
2021	10	32.3%
2022	7	22.6%
2023	2	6.5%
2024	1	3.2%

Which technologies does Vulcan Inc. patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 17

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 15 of 26 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

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

Vulcan Inc.'s lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 54.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #10,227 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vulcan Inc. against VeroScience LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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.