Where does B-K Medical APS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), B-K Medical APS ranks #4,029 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 B-K Medical APS hold?

B-K Medical APS holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is B-K Medical APS's Innovation Score?

B-K Medical APS has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does B-K Medical APS focus on?

B-K Medical APS's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 68 patents, ranking #271 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is B-K Medical APS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

B-K Medical APS's recent grant velocity is +51% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for B-K Medical APS's patents?

B-K Medical APS's patents average 20.8 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-K Medical APS 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

B-K Medical APS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 15 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, B-K ranks #4,029 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 15 technology areas.

#4,029
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 20.8
avg claims per patent: +51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4029 · Foreign Corporation #4,029 · 89 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,029/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BGC Partners
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BGC Partners, 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 B-K’s 46.0 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 15.5 pts (34%) Velocity 4.3 pts (9%) Breadth 13.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AutoConnect Holdings · near

46
B-K Medical APS · this assignee

46
Freni Brembo S P A · near

46
Lund Motion Products · near

46
Tohoku Pioneer · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows B-K's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 B-K?

Each dot is one of B-K’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). B-K’s own 20.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where B-K's grants concentrate

B-K Medical APS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 76.4% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, B-K sits between Toyota Motor Europe and Carbo Ceramics, Inc..

B-K's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, B-K Medical APS moved from 39 to 25 grants (0.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Toyota Motor Euro…

90
Tristar Products

90
Versata Developme…

90
Vertiv

90
BGC Partners

89
Birkenstock IP

89
Bushnell

89
Carbo Ceramics

89
B-K Medical APS ◀

89

What this shows B-K holds 89 patents at rank #4,029, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near B-K

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,029 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for B-K, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), B-K ranks #271 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Tohoku Pioneer Corporation 46 Lund Motion Products, Inc. 46 Freni Brembo S.P.A. 46 AutoConnect Holdings LLC 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.8 here).

X Display Company Technology Limited 20.8 avg uBiome, Inc. 20.8 avg Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. 20.8 avg The Nielsen Company (US), LLC 20.8 avg

B-K's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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.

View data table

B-K Medical APS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.2%
2016	6	6.7%
2017	9	10.1%
2018	7	7.9%
2019	11	12.4%
2020	16	18.0%
2021	12	13.5%
2022	10	11.2%
2023	9	10.1%
2024	6	6.7%
2025partial year	1	1.1%

Which technologies does B-K Medical APS patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 68

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 55

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 9

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

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

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

B-K Medical APS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

B-K Medical APS's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 76.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #4,029 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare B-K Medical APS against Toyota Motor Europe, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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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