Where does Bard Shannon Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bard Shannon Limited ranks #11,565 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 Bard Shannon Limited hold?

Bard Shannon Limited holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Bard Shannon Limited's Innovation Score?

Bard Shannon Limited has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bard Shannon Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bard Shannon Limited's recent grant velocity is +60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bard Shannon Limited's patents?

Bard Shannon Limited's patents average 18.2 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 Bard Shannon 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 US Corporation

Bard Shannon Limited

Q: What technology areas does Bard Shannon Limited focus on?

Bard Shannon Limited's top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 21 patents, ranking #308 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bard ranks #11,565 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 4 technology areas.

#11,565
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11565 · US Corporation #11,565 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,565/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baumueller Nuernberg
CPC-NARROW A61F · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baumueller Nuernberg GmbH (±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 Bard’s 49.4 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 11.4 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 7.1 pts (14%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bard Shannon · this assignee

49
Dong-eui University… · near

49
Norma Germany · near

49
Platform Science · near

49
Shenzhen Futaihong… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bard's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 Bard?

Each dot is one of Bard’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). Bard’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bard's grants concentrate

Bard Shannon Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 80.8% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Bard sits between Bolt Threads, Inc. and BioSig Technologies, Inc..

Bard's three-year grant acceleration

Bard Shannon Limited shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Bolt Threads

26
Braemar Manufactu…

26
Bristol

26
Bullfrog Internat…

26
Baumueller Nuernb…

26
Belden

26
Bio-rad Europe

26
Biosig

26
Bard Shannon ◀

26

What this shows Bard holds 26 patents at rank #11,576, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bard

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,576 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Bard ranks #308 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Platform Science, Inc. 49 Dong-eui University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation 49 Norma Germany GMBH 49 Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 49

Bard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bard Shannon Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.7%
2016	2	7.7%
2017	2	7.7%
2018	3	11.5%
2019	1	3.8%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	1	3.8%
2023	8	30.8%
2024	5	19.2%

Which technologies does Bard Shannon Limited patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 21

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 16

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Bard Shannon Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bard Shannon Limited's lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 80.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #11,565 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bard Shannon Limited against Bolt Threads, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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