Where does Belden Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Belden Inc. ranks #11,569 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 Belden Inc. hold?

Belden Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Belden Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Belden Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Belden Inc. focus on?

Belden Inc.'s top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 16 patents, ranking #69 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Belden Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Belden Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Belden Inc.'s patents?

Belden Inc.'s patents average 23.4 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 Belden 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

Belden Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 17 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Belden ranks #11,569 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 17 technology areas.

#11,569
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 23.4
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11569 · US Corporation #11,569 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,569/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Shannon
CPC-FOCUS H01B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Shannon Limited (±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 Belden’s 49.4 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 11.4 pts (23%) Velocity 9.3 pts (19%) Breadth 14.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atonarp · near

49
Behr-hella Thermocon… · near

49
Belden · this assignee

49
Cataler · near

49
Morinaga Milk Industry · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Belden's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 Belden?

Each dot is one of Belden’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). Belden’s own 23.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Belden's grants concentrate

Belden Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Belden sits between Bristol, Inc and Braze, Inc..

Belden's three-year grant acceleration

Belden Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Bristol

26
Bullfrog Internat…

26
Bard Shannon

26
Baumueller Nuernb…

26
Bio-rad Europe

26
Biosig

26
Bock 1 & KG

26
Braze

26
Belden ◀

26

What this shows Belden holds 26 patents at rank #11,578, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Belden

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,578 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Belden, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01B (Cables), Belden ranks #69 of 1,055 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Atonarp Inc. 49 Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH 49 Cataler Corporation 49 Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. 49

Belden's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Belden Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.5%
2016	2	7.7%
2017	5	19.2%
2018	2	7.7%
2019	2	7.7%
2020	3	11.5%
2022	3	11.5%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	3	11.5%
2025partial year	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Belden Inc. patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 16

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

H04B - Transmission 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

D04C - Braiding OR Manufacture OF Lace, Including Bobbin-net OR Carbonised LACE; Braiding MACHINES; BRAID; Lace 2

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 2

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 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

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 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Belden Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Belden Inc.'s lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 61.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #11,569 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Belden Inc. against Bristol, Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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.