Where does Balmoral Comtec Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Balmoral Comtec Limited ranks #30,959 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 Balmoral Comtec Limited hold?

Balmoral Comtec Limited holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Balmoral Comtec Limited's Innovation Score?

Balmoral Comtec Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.3 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Balmoral Comtec Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Balmoral Comtec Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Balmoral Comtec Limited's patents?

Balmoral Comtec Limited's patents average 16.4 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 Balmoral Comtec Limited 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

Balmoral Comtec Limited

Q: What technology areas does Balmoral Comtec Limited focus on?

Balmoral Comtec Limited's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 4 patents, ranking #521 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Balmoral ranks #30,959 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 11 technology areas.

#30,959
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.3/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30959 · Foreign Corporation #30,959 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #30,959/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bala Bangles
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bala Bangles, 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 Balmoral’s 30.3 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 7.6 pts (25%) Velocity 1.1 pts (4%) Breadth 11.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Balmoral Comtec · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Balmoral's Innovation Score is 30.3/100 (34th percentile 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 Balmoral?

Each dot is one of Balmoral’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). Balmoral’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Balmoral's grants concentrate

Balmoral Comtec Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Balmoral sits between BTU International, Inc. and Bardy Technologies, Inc..

Balmoral's three-year grant acceleration

Balmoral Comtec Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

BTU International

8
Bullseye HIP Repl…

8
BYK USA

8
Bala Bangles

8
Banco Bilbao Vizc…

8
Banner Health

8
Bantam Pharmaceut…

8
Bardy

8
Balmoral Comtec ◀

8

What this shows Balmoral holds 8 patents at rank #31,028, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Balmoral

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,028 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Balmoral's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Balmoral Comtec Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	25.0%
2021	4	50.0%
2022	1	12.5%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Balmoral Comtec Limited patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 4

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 4

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 3

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

F15D - Fluid Dynamics, i.e. Methods OR Means FOR Influencing THE Flow OF Gases OR Liquids 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Balmoral Comtec Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Balmoral Comtec Limited's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #30,959 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Balmoral Comtec Limited against BTU International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.3/100 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

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.