Where does Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. ranks #3,763 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 Namco Entertainment Inc. hold?

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +21% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'s patents?

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'s patents average 16.1 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 Namco Entertainment 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 Foreign Corporation

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. focus on?

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'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 83 patents, ranking #30 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 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 #3,763 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 15 technology areas.

#3,763
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3763 · Foreign Corporation #3,763 · 96 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,763/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Apollo Intelligent…
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (BEIJING) 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 Bandai’s 42.8 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 15.8 pts (37%) Velocity 3.6 pts (8%) Breadth 13.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bandai Namco… · this assignee

43
Cal-comp BIG Data · near

43
Daishinku · near

43
Enzo Life Sciences · near

43
Pierburg · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bandai's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bandai's grants concentrate

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 86.5% 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 2021 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bandai sits between Universite Paul SABATIER—TOULOUSE III and Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG.

Bandai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. moved from 39 to 21 grants (0.54x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Universite Paul S…

97
UPI Semiconductor

97
iboss

97
Apollo Intelligen…

96
Behr Process

96
Cognizant Technol…

96
Conversant Wirele…

96
Covestro Intellec…

96
Bandai Namco Ente… ◀

96

What this shows Bandai holds 96 patents at rank #3,763, 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 #3,763 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 #30 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Pierburg GMBH 43 Daishinku Corporation 43 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. 43 Cal-comp BIG Data, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Skorpios Technologies, Inc. 16.1 avg Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 16.1 avg Applied Biosystems, LLC 16.1 avg Global IP Holdings, LLC 16.1 avg

Bandai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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 Namco Entertainment Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.0%
2016	14	14.6%
2017	10	10.4%
2018	8	8.3%
2019	9	9.4%
2020	11	11.5%
2021	19	19.8%
2022	14	14.6%
2023	4	4.2%
2024	3	3.1%
2025partial year	3	3.1%

Which technologies does Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 83

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 10

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 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 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 Namco Entertainment Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.'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), 86.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #3,763 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. against Universite Paul SABATIER—TOULOUSE III, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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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