Where does Badger Meter, Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Badger Meter, Inc ranks #13,877 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 Badger Meter, Inc hold?

Badger Meter, Inc holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Badger Meter, Inc's Innovation Score?

Badger Meter, Inc has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Badger Meter, Inc focus on?

Badger Meter, Inc's top technology area is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume) with 10 patents, ranking #92 of 1,205 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Badger Meter, Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Badger Meter, Inc's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Badger Meter, Inc's patents?

Badger Meter, Inc's patents average 17.9 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 Badger Meter, 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

Badger Meter, Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 22 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: G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Badger ranks #13,877 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 22 technology areas.

#13,877
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13877 · US Corporation #13,877 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,877/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Berryville Holdings
CPC-FOCUS G01F · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Berryville Holdings, 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 Badger’s 43.3 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 10.7 pts (25%) Velocity 5.3 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Badger Meter · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Badger's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Badger?

Each dot is one of Badger’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). Badger’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Badger's grants concentrate

Badger Meter, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 47.6% of grants classified under G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Badger sits between Bluebird Inc. and Biokine Therapeutics Ltd..

Badger's three-year grant acceleration

Badger Meter, Inc shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Bluebird

21
Bomtech

21
Brightway Vision

21
BRÜCkner Maschine…

21
Berryville Holdin…

21
Best Medical Inte…

21
Bio2 Medical

21
Biokine Therapeut…

21
Badger Meter ◀

21

What this shows Badger holds 21 patents at rank #13,887, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Badger

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,887 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01F (Measuring Volume)

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

Badger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Badger Meter, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	14.3%
2016	1	4.8%
2017	3	14.3%
2018	4	19.0%
2019	1	4.8%
2020	4	19.0%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	1	4.8%
2024	2	9.5%
2025partial year	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Badger Meter, Inc patent most?

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 10

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H04Q - Selecting 5

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Badger Meter, Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Badger Meter, Inc's lead technology class is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume), 47.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01F
Ranked #13,877 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Badger Meter, Inc against Bluebird Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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