Where does Becton Dickinson France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Becton Dickinson France ranks #1,928 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 Becton Dickinson France hold?

Becton Dickinson France holds 208 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Becton Dickinson France's Innovation Score?

Becton Dickinson France has an Innovation Score of 52.5 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Becton Dickinson France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Becton Dickinson France's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Becton Dickinson France's patents?

Becton Dickinson France's patents average 13.4 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 Becton Dickinson France 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

Becton Dickinson France

Q: What technology areas does Becton Dickinson France focus on?

Becton Dickinson France's top technology area is 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) with 151 patents, ranking #49 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 208 granted patents across 31 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Becton ranks #1,928 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 208 patents across 31 technology areas.

#1,928
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.5/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1928 · Foreign Corporation #1,928 · 208 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 208 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,928/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fiskars Finland Oy Ab
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fiskars Finland Oy Ab (±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 Becton’s 52.5 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 18.5 pts (35%) Velocity 6.3 pts (12%) Breadth 19.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Becton Dickinson… · this assignee

52
Bundesdruckerei · near

52
Sakai Display Products · near

52
Statoil Petroleum AS · near

52
Woodstream · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Becton's Innovation Score is 52.5/100 (top 10% 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 Becton?

Each dot is one of Becton’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). Becton’s own 13.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Becton's grants concentrate

Becton Dickinson France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 72.6% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (24 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2020. By volume, Becton sits between Lego A/S and Novozymes, Inc..

Becton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Becton Dickinson France moved from 53 to 50 grants (0.94x 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 #1,347. See the growth leaderboard.

Lego A/S

209
Nabors Drilling U…

209
Shure Acquisition…

209
The Charles Machi…

209
Fiskars Finland O…

208
JT International

208
Medtronic Ardian…

208
Novozymes

208
Becton Dickinson… ◀

208

What this shows Becton holds 208 patents at rank #1,928, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Becton

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,928 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Becton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Becton ranks #49 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Statoil Petroleum AS 52 Sakai Display Products Corporation 52 Woodstream Corporation 52 Bundesdruckerei GMBH 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Elo Touch Solutions, Inc. 13.4 avg Butterfly Network, Inc. 13.4 avg Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg Hoya Corporation 13.4 avg

Becton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Becton Dickinson France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	10.6%
2016	21	10.1%
2017	23	11.1%
2018	24	11.5%
2019	18	8.7%
2020	11	5.3%
2021	24	11.5%
2022	16	7.7%
2023	19	9.1%
2024	15	7.2%
2025partial year	15	7.2%

Which technologies does Becton Dickinson France patent most?

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 151

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 26

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 18

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 4

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 4

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 2

Top 15 of 31 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

Becton Dickinson France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Becton Dickinson France's lead technology class is 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), 72.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #1,928 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Becton Dickinson France against Lego A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.5/100 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

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