Where does Bedford Systems LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bedford Systems LLC ranks #8,170 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 Systems LLC hold?

Bedford Systems LLC holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Bedford Systems LLC's Innovation Score?

Bedford Systems LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% 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 Systems LLC focus on?

Bedford Systems LLC's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 24 patents, ranking #44 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bedford Systems LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bedford Systems LLC's recent grant velocity is +92% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bedford Systems LLC's patents?

Bedford Systems LLC's patents average 16.8 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 Systems 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

Bedford Systems LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bedford ranks #8,170 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 21 technology areas.

#8,170
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8170 · US Corporation #8,170 · 39 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,170/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axogen
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axogen Corporation (±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 44.2 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 12.7 pts (29%) Velocity 5.2 pts (12%) Breadth 16.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bedford Systems · this assignee

44
U S Silica · near

44
Agenus · near

44
BeiGene · near

44
MTS Systems · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bedford's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 16.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bedford's grants concentrate

Bedford Systems LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Bedford sits between Axogen Corporation and Centro DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA.

Bedford's three-year grant acceleration

Bedford Systems LLC 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.

Axogen

39
Backbeat Medical

39
Base Brands

39
Bear Archery

39
Biomed Valley Dis…

39
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

39
Caci —Federal

39
Centro DE Ingenie…

39
Bedford Systems ◀

39

What this shows Bedford holds 39 patents at rank #8,170, 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 #8,170 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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 A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Bedford ranks #44 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

U.S. Silica Company 44 MTS Systems Corporation 44 BeiGene, Ltd. 44 Agenus Inc. 44

Bedford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bedford Systems LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	5.1%
2018	4	10.3%
2019	7	17.9%
2020	7	17.9%
2021	4	10.3%
2022	5	12.8%
2023	7	17.9%
2024	2	5.1%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Bedford Systems LLC patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 24

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 16

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

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 12

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 9

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 2

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 2

Top 15 of 21 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 Systems LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bedford Systems LLC's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 61.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #8,170 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bedford Systems LLC against Axogen Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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.

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.