Where does BD Kiestra B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BD Kiestra B.V. ranks #6,310 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 BD Kiestra B.V. hold?

BD Kiestra B.V. holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is BD Kiestra B.V.'s Innovation Score?

BD Kiestra B.V. has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BD Kiestra B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BD Kiestra B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BD Kiestra B.V.'s patents?

BD Kiestra B.V.'s patents average 14.5 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 BD Kiestra B.V. 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

BD Kiestra B.V.

Q: What technology areas does BD Kiestra B.V. focus on?

BD Kiestra B.V.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 36 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 16 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BD ranks #6,310 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 16 technology areas.

#6,310
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6310 · Foreign Corporation #6,310 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,310/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advansix Resins &…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advansix Resins & Chemicals 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BD Kiestra B V · this assignee

42
Elekta AB (publ) · near

42
F Hoffmann-La Roche · near

42
Hyperconnect · near

42
Pierre Fabre… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BD's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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.

Where BD's grants concentrate

BD Kiestra B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, BD sits between Advansix Resins & Chemicals LLC and Bonza Botanicals PTY., Ltd..

BD's three-year grant acceleration

BD Kiestra B.V. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Advansix Resins &…

53
Ambiq Micro

53
Alitheon

53
Ambrx

53
Bloomy Lotus

53
Board OF Regents…

53
Board OF Trustees…

53
Bonza Botanicals…

53
BD Kiestra B V ◀

53

What this shows BD holds 53 patents at rank #6,309, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BD

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,309 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmetique 42 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG 42 Hyperconnect LLC 42 Elekta AB (publ) 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

Rhode Island Hospital 14.5 avg Astellas Pharma Inc. 14.5 avg Tyco Electronics Japan G.K. 14.5 avg Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH 14.5 avg

BD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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BD Kiestra B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.8%
2017	3	5.7%
2018	5	9.4%
2019	4	7.5%
2020	7	13.2%
2021	7	13.2%
2022	3	5.7%
2023	4	7.5%
2024	7	13.2%
2025partial year	11	20.8%

Which technologies does BD Kiestra B.V. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 33

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 27

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 6

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,310

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

BD Kiestra B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BD Kiestra B.V.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,310 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BD Kiestra B.V. against Advansix Resins & Chemicals LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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