Where does Bedford Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bedford Industries, Inc. ranks #4,865 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 Bedford Industries, Inc. hold?

Bedford Industries, Inc. holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Bedford Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bedford Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bedford Industries, Inc. focus on?

Bedford Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals) with 35 patents, ranking #20 of 860 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bedford Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bedford Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +23% 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 Bedford Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Bedford Industries, Inc.'s patents average 11.8 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 Bedford Industries, 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 US Corporation

Bedford Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bedford ranks #4,865 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,865
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4865 · US Corporation #4,865 · 71 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,865/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bandai
CPC-FOCUS G09F · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bandai Co. Ltd (±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 Bedford’s 39.3 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 14.8 pts (38%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 14.1 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongbu HiTek · near

39
Bedford Industries · this assignee

39
KiwiCo · near

39
LimFlow · near

39
ALI S P A —CARPIGIAN… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bedford's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% 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 Bedford?

Each dot is one of Bedford’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). Bedford’s own 11.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bedford's grants concentrate

Bedford Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 49.3% of grants classified under G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Bedford sits between Bandai Co. Ltd and Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc..

Bedford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bedford Industries, Inc. moved from 34 to 17 grants (0.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Bandai

71
Basf Agro B V

71
Beto Engineering…

71
Bionime

71
Blast Motion

71
Bunn-o-matic

71
Changzhou Patent…

71
Cambridge Mobile…

71
Bedford Industries ◀

71

What this shows Bedford holds 71 patents at rank #4,867, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bedford

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bedford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09F (Displaying), Bedford ranks #20 of 860 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

LimFlow GmbH 39 KiwiCo, Inc. 39 ALI S.P.A.—CARPIGIANI Group 39 Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

UPI Semiconductor Corp. 11.8 avg Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 11.8 avg Johnstech International Corporation 11.8 avg Robert Bosch Automotive Steering LLC 11.8 avg

Bedford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% 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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Bedford Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.2%
2016	5	7.0%
2017	5	7.0%
2018	5	7.0%
2019	13	18.3%
2020	12	16.9%
2021	9	12.7%
2022	6	8.5%
2023	9	12.7%
2024	2	2.8%
2025partial year	2	2.8%

Which technologies does Bedford Industries, Inc. patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 35

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 28

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 10

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 7

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 5

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

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 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 2

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Bedford Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bedford Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals), 49.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09F
Ranked #4,865 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bedford Industries, Inc. against Bandai Co. Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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