Where does Bandai Co. Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bandai Co. Ltd ranks #4,863 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 Bandai Co. Ltd hold?

Bandai Co. Ltd holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Bandai Co. Ltd's Innovation Score?

Bandai Co. Ltd has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bandai Co. Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bandai Co. Ltd's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Bandai Co. Ltd's patents?

Bandai Co. Ltd's patents average 5.9 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 Bandai Co. Ltd 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

Bandai Co. Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Bandai Co. Ltd focus on?

Bandai Co. Ltd's top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 12 patents, ranking #125 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 15 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bandai ranks #4,863 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 15 technology areas.

#4,863
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 5.9
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4863 · Foreign Corporation #4,863 · 71 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,863/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aclara
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aclara Technologies 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 Bandai’s 50.1 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 14.8 pts (30%) Velocity 18.1 pts (36%) Breadth 13.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bandai · this assignee

50
Iogen · near

50
R P Scherer · near

50
Stego-holding · near

50
Torrey Pines Logic · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bandai's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 14% 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 Bandai?

Each dot is one of Bandai’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). Bandai’s own 5.9 claims/patent is at or below the 11.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bandai's grants concentrate

Bandai Co. Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 16.9% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Bandai sits between ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH and Bedford Industries, Inc..

Bandai's three-year grant acceleration

Bandai Co. Ltd shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

ASP Global Manufa…

71
Aclara

71
Allied Wheel Comp…

71
Avinger

71
Basf Agro B V

71
Beto Engineering…

71
Bionime

71
Bedford Industries

71
Bandai ◀

71

What this shows Bandai holds 71 patents at rank #4,863, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bandai

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,863 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bandai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Bandai ranks #125 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC 50 Iogen Corporation 50 Stego-holding GMBH 50 Torrey Pines Logic, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.9 here).

Yuan MEI Corp. 5.9 avg Ningbo University 5.9 avg Anhui Huami Information Technology Co., Ltd. 5.9 avg Toshiba Carrier Corporation 5.9 avg

Bandai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Bandai Co. Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	16.9%
2016	13	18.3%
2017	12	16.9%
2018	2	2.8%
2019	2	2.8%
2020	3	4.2%
2021	2	2.8%
2022	7	9.9%
2023	5	7.0%
2024	7	9.9%
2025partial year	6	8.5%

Which technologies does Bandai Co. Ltd patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 11

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 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

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 1

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

Top 15 of 15 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

Bandai Co. Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bandai Co. Ltd's lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 16.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #4,863 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bandai Co. Ltd against ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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