Where does Bauer Hockey LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bauer Hockey LLC ranks #2,191 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 Bauer Hockey LLC hold?

Bauer Hockey LLC holds 179 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Bauer Hockey LLC's Innovation Score?

Bauer Hockey LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bauer Hockey LLC focus on?

Bauer Hockey LLC's top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 80 patents, ranking #18 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bauer Hockey LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bauer Hockey LLC's recent grant velocity is +34% 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 Bauer Hockey LLC's patents?

Bauer Hockey LLC's patents average 23.7 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 Bauer Hockey LLC 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

Bauer Hockey LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 179 granted patents across 30 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: A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bauer ranks #2,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 179 patents across 30 technology areas.

#2,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 23.7
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2191 · US Corporation #2,191 · 179 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 179 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcatel-Lucent USA
CPC-FOCUS A63B · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (±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 Bauer’s 57.2 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 17.9 pts (31%) Velocity 5.7 pts (10%) Breadth 19.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Automotive… · near

57
Kunlunxin Technology… · near

57
Bauer Hockey · this assignee

57
Nordex Energy SE & KG · near

57
VIA · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bauer's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 Bauer?

Each dot is one of Bauer’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). Bauer’s own 23.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bauer's grants concentrate

Bauer Hockey LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 44.7% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (32 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bauer sits between Stmicroelectronics PTE Ltd and GE Avio S.R.L..

Bauer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bauer Hockey LLC moved from 70 to 60 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,639. See the growth leaderboard.

Stmicroelectronic…

180
Sumitomo Seika Ch…

180
Ansaldo Energia S…

179
Alcatel-lucent USA

179
Bosch Automotive…

179
Csmc Fab2

179
Doosan Infracore

179
GE Avio S R L

179
Bauer Hockey ◀

179

What this shows Bauer holds 179 patents at rank #2,191, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bauer

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bauer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training), Bauer ranks #18 of 1,021 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

VIA Technologies, Inc. 57 Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG 57 Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. 57 Kunlunxin Technology (BEIJING) Company Limited 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.7 here).

Solarflare Communications, Inc. 23.7 avg Weka.IO Ltd. 23.7 avg Veniam, Inc. 23.7 avg HI LLC 23.7 avg

Bauer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Bauer Hockey LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.6%
2016	11	6.1%
2017	10	5.6%
2018	19	10.6%
2019	32	17.9%
2020	18	10.1%
2021	20	11.2%
2022	20	11.2%
2023	23	12.8%
2024	17	9.5%
2025partial year	8	4.5%

Which technologies does Bauer Hockey LLC patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 80

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 44

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 37

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 36

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 33

A63C - SKATES; SKIS; Roller SKATES; Design OR Layout OF Courts, Rinks OR THE Like 29

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 27

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 13

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 10

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

A42C - Manufacturing OR Trimming Head Coverings, e.g. Hats 7

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

A43C - Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

Top 15 of 30 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

Bauer Hockey LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bauer Hockey LLC's lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 44.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #2,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bauer Hockey LLC against Stmicroelectronics PTE Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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.

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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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