Where does Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. ranks #5,915 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 Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. hold?

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. focus on?

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s top technology area is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 43 patents, ranking #5 of 469 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s patents?

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s patents average 12.2 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 Automatic Bar Controls, 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

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 32 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: B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Automatic ranks #5,915 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 32 technology areas.

#5,915
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5915 · US Corporation #5,915 · 57 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,915/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alliance Fiber…
CPC-FOCUS B67D · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alliance Fiber Optic Products, 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.

How Automatic’s 44.3 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 14.0 pts (32%) Velocity 2.9 pts (7%) Breadth 20.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arteris · near

44
Automatic Bar Controls · this assignee

44
CytomX Therapeutics · near

44
IFM · near

44
Zodiac Aerotechnics · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automatic's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Automatic?

Each dot is one of Automatic’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). Automatic’s own 12.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Automatic's grants concentrate

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 75.4% of grants classified under B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Automatic sits between Artemide S.P.A. and Curver Luxembourg Sarl.

Automatic's three-year grant acceleration

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Artemide S P A

57
Alliance Fiber Op…

57
Assurant

57
Auto-kabel Manage…

57
BOE Mled Technolo…

57
Black Hills IP Ho…

57
Citicorp Credit S…

57
Curver Luxembourg…

57
Automatic Bar Con… ◀

57

What this shows Automatic holds 57 patents at rank #5,915, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Automatic

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,915 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B67D (Dispensing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Automatic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B67D (Dispensing), Automatic ranks #5 of 469 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

IFM Electronic GmbH 44 Zodiac Aerotechnics 44 CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. 44 Arteris, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

ECA Medical Instruments 12.2 avg Avon Products, Inc. 12.2 avg Zinus Inc. 12.2 avg Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited 12.2 avg

Automatic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.0%
2016	3	5.3%
2017	13	22.8%
2018	12	21.1%
2019	5	8.8%
2020	8	14.0%
2021	3	5.3%
2022	2	3.5%
2023	3	5.3%
2024	2	3.5%
2025partial year	2	3.5%

Which technologies does Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. patent most?

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 43

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 8

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 8

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 5

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 5

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 4

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 3

Top 15 of 32 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

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s lead technology class is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 75.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B67D
Ranked #5,915 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. against Artemide S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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