Where does Bellwether Electronic Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bellwether Electronic Corp. ranks #11,180 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 Bellwether Electronic Corp. hold?

Bellwether Electronic Corp. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Bellwether Electronic Corp. has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s patents?

Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s patents average 14.0 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 Bellwether Electronic Corp. 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

Bellwether Electronic Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Bellwether Electronic Corp. focus on?

Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 22 patents, ranking #149 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 5 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bellwether ranks #11,180 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 5 technology areas.

#11,180
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11180 · Foreign Corporation #11,180 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,180/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Athalonz
CPC-NARROW H01R · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Athalonz, 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.

How Bellwether’s 38.5 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 11.5 pts (30%) Velocity 10.7 pts (28%) Breadth 7.9 pts (21%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bellwether · this assignee

38
Vesper Medical · near

38
Action Target · near

38
British Broadcasting · near

38
KNIPEX-Werk C… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bellwether's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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 Bellwether?

Each dot is one of Bellwether’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). Bellwether’s own 14.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bellwether's grants concentrate

Bellwether Electronic Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 81.5% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Bellwether sits between Athalonz, LLC and Bone Foam, Inc..

Bellwether's three-year grant acceleration

Bellwether Electronic Corp. shows 8 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.

Athalonz

27
Autochips

27
Automated Packagi…

27
Avalon Holographi…

27
Bitmain

27
BLÜCHER

27
Bmts Technology &…

27
Bone Foam

27
Bellwether ◀

27

What this shows Bellwether holds 27 patents at rank #11,177, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bellwether

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,177 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bellwether, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Bellwether ranks #149 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Vesper Medical, Inc. 38 Action Target Inc. 38 British Broadcasting Corporation 38 KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG 38

Bellwether's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Bellwether Electronic Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.1%
2016	2	7.4%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	5	18.5%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	3	11.1%
2021	1	3.7%
2022	2	7.4%
2024	6	22.2%
2025partial year	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Bellwether Electronic Corp. patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 22

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 4

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bellwether Electronic Corp.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 81.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #11,180 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bellwether Electronic Corp. against Athalonz, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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.

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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