Where does Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG ranks #45,030 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 Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 22.7 out of 100 (11th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG'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 Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 8.0 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 Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG 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

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 3 patents, ranking #792 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bals ranks #45,030 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 2 technology areas.

#45,030
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 11th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.7/100): 8.0
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R45030 · Foreign Corporation #45,030 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #45,030/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baidu Online…
CPC-NARROW H01R · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baidu Online Network Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Bals’s 22.7 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 6.2 pts (27%) Velocity 6.7 pts (30%) Breadth 5.0 pts (22%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Bals's Innovation Score is 22.7/100 (11th 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 Bals?

Each dot is one of Bals’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). Bals’s own 8.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bals's grants concentrate

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bals sits between Baidu Online Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Barbco, Inc..

Bals's three-year grant acceleration

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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5
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5
Baldwin Barlow &…

5
Ballet Makers

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Bandit

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Bankers Pen (1991)

5
Bansen Labs

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What this shows Bals holds 5 patents at rank #45,222, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bals

By rank, the assignees closest to #45,222 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Bals's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 11th percentile higher than 11% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	20.0%
2017	2	40.0%
2020	1	20.0%
2022	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

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

Top 2 of 2 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

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #45,030 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG against Baidu Online Network Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.7/100 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

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