Where does Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. ranks #4,657 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 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. hold?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. focus on?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s top technology area is H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials) with 18 patents, ranking #182 of 1,637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +88% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s patents?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s patents average 18.9 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 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 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

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ball ranks #4,657 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 59 technology areas.

#4,657
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4657 · US Corporation #4,657 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,657/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Applied Research…
CPC-WIDE H01Q · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Applied Research Associates, 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 Ball’s 59.6 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 15.0 pts (25%) Velocity 8.3 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ball Aerospace & · this assignee

60
Deutsche Post · near

60
Mianyang BOE… · near

60
Preformed Line… · near

60
TPK Advanced Solutions · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ball's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Ball?

Each dot is one of Ball’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). Ball’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ball's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. received 49 grants versus 26 in 2015–2019 (+88% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 13 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class H01Q accounts for 24% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Assia SPE, LLC (#4,655) and Crystal IS, Inc. (#4,663).

Ball's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. moved from 25 to 31 grants (1.24x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Assia SPE

75
Applied Research…

75
Beekenkamp Plants…

75
BEN Gurion Univer…

75
Becton Dickinson…

75
CAE

75
Cloudera

75
Crystal IS

75
Ball Aerospace & ◀

75

What this shows Ball holds 75 patents at rank #4,659, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ball

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,659 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01Q (Antennas)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ball, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01Q (Antennas), Ball ranks #182 of 1,637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Deutsche Post AG 60 TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 60 Preformed Line Products Co. 60 Mianyang BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

CYTONOME/ST, LLC 18.9 avg Ambarella, Inc. 18.9 avg Designs for Vision, Inc. 18.9 avg Procept BioRobotics Corporation 18.9 avg

Ball's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.0%
2016	5	6.7%
2017	8	10.7%
2018	3	4.0%
2019	7	9.3%
2020	10	13.3%
2021	8	10.7%
2022	13	17.3%
2023	11	14.7%
2024	7	9.3%

Which technologies does Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. patent most?

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 18

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 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 11

H04B - Transmission 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

Top 15 of 59 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

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s lead technology class is H01Q (Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials), 24% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01Q
Ranked #4,657 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. against Assia SPE, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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.