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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bandai Namco Games Inc. ranks #20,802 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 Games Inc. hold?

Bandai Namco Games Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 10 technology areas.

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

Bandai Namco Games Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.7 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Bandai Namco Games Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Namco Games Inc.'s patents?

Bandai Namco Games Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 Games 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 Games Inc.

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

Bandai Namco Games 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 9 patents, ranking #152 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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 #20,802 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,802
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.7/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20802 · Foreign Corporation #20,802 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,802/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BAD BOY Mowers
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BAD BOY Mowers, 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 31.7 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 9.1 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bandai Namco Games · this assignee

32
ChipMOS · near

32
Hilite Germany · near

32
Kezzler AS · near

32
Rieter Ingolstadt · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bandai's Innovation Score is 31.7/100 (39th 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 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 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 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 Games Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 69.2% 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 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bandai sits between B&G Plastics, Inc. and Beijing BOE Energy Technology Co., Ltd..

B&G Plastics

13
B E Meyers &

13
BAD BOY Mowers

13
BAE Systems Space…

13
BCS Automotive In…

13
BE Intellectual P…

13
Beckett GAS

13
Beijing BOE Energ…

13
Bandai Namco Games ◀

13

What this shows Bandai holds 13 patents at rank #20,801, 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 #20,801 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 #152 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Kezzler AS 32 Rieter Ingolstadt GmbH 32 Hilite Germany GmbH 32 ChipMOS Technologies Inc. 32

Bandai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 Games Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	84.6%
2017	1	7.7%
2020	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Bandai Namco Games Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

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

Top 10 of 10 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 Games Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bandai Namco Games 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), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #20,802 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bandai Namco Games Inc. against B&G Plastics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.7/100 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

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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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