Where does Bally Gaming, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bally Gaming, Inc. ranks #568 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 Bally Gaming, Inc. hold?

Bally Gaming, Inc. holds 792 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Bally Gaming, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bally Gaming, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.6 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 Bally Gaming, Inc. focus on?

Bally Gaming, Inc.'s top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 654 patents, ranking #3 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bally Gaming, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bally Gaming, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Bally Gaming, Inc.'s patents?

Bally Gaming, Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Bally Gaming, 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

Bally Gaming, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 792 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bally ranks #568 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 792 patents across 48 technology areas.

#568
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R568 · US Corporation #568 · 792 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 792 grants
TOP-DECILE #568/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcon
CPC-WIDE G07F · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcon Inc. (±1 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 Bally’s 58.6 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 23.1 pts (39%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 24.5 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bally Gaming · this assignee

59
CommScope Connectivi… · near

59
Institute of Rock… · near

59
Joyson Safety… · near

59
Sagemcom Energy &… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bally's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (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 Bally?

Each dot is one of Bally’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). Bally’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bally's grants concentrate

Bally Gaming, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 82.6% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (218 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Bally sits between Fortinet, Inc. and Yokogawa Electric Corporation.

Fortinet

801
Resmed Pty

800
Wipro

794
Alcon

793
Bally Gaming ◀

792
Gentex

790
Yeti Coolers

789
Abbott Diabetes C…

788
Yokogawa Electric

788

What this shows Bally holds 792 patents at rank #568, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bally

By rank, the assignees closest to #568 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bally, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), Bally ranks #3 of 1,075 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

CommScope Connectivity Belgium Bvba 59 Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC 59 Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS 59 Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

University OF Southampton 18.4 avg Greenlee Tools, Inc. 18.4 avg Ruckus Wireless, Inc. 18.4 avg OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 18.4 avg

Bally's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 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 · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

View data table

Bally Gaming, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	144	18.2%
2016	218	27.5%
2017	181	22.9%
2018	116	14.6%
2019	112	14.1%
2020	20	2.5%
2021	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Bally Gaming, Inc. patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 654

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 206

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 55

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 53

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 32

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 23

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

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

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

Top 15 of 48 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

Bally Gaming, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bally Gaming, Inc.'s lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 82.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #568 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bally Gaming, Inc. against Fortinet, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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

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