Where does B & D Dental Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), B & D Dental Corporation ranks #20,797 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 B & D Dental Corporation hold?

B & D Dental Corporation holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is B & D Dental Corporation's Innovation Score?

B & D Dental Corporation has an Innovation Score of 30.3 out of 100 (top 66% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is B & D Dental Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

B & D Dental Corporation's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 B & D Dental Corporation's patents?

B & D Dental Corporation's patents average 20.2 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 B & D Dental 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

B & D Dental Corporation

Q: What technology areas does B & D Dental Corporation focus on?

B & D Dental Corporation's top technology area is A61C (DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, B ranks #20,797 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 5 technology areas.

#20,797
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 66%
by Innovation Score (30.3/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20797 · US Corporation #20,797 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,797/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ava Labs
CPC-NARROW A61C · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ava Labs, 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
B & D Dental · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows B's Innovation Score is 30.3/100 (top 66% 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 B's grants concentrate

B & D Dental Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61C (DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, B sits between Ava Labs, Inc. and BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc..

Ava Labs

13
Avdel UK

13
Axcess Instruments

13
Axial Medical Pri…

13
B&G Plastics

13
B E Meyers &

13
BAD BOY Mowers

13
BAE Systems Space…

13
B & D Dental ◀

13

What this shows B holds 13 patents at rank #20,796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near B

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,796 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

B's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 66% higher than 34% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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B & D Dental Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%

Which technologies does B & D Dental Corporation patent most?

A61C - DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE 13

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 12

C04B - LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE 11

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 11

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,797

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.3 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

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