Where does Belron International Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Belron International Limited ranks #10,871 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 Belron International Limited hold?

Belron International Limited holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Belron International Limited's Innovation Score?

Belron International Limited has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Belron International Limited focus on?

Belron International Limited's top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 11 patents, ranking #353 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Belron International Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Belron International Limited's recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Belron International Limited's patents?

Belron International Limited's patents average 17.3 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 Belron International Limited 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

Belron International Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 27 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Belron ranks #10,871 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 27 technology areas.

#10,871
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10871 · Foreign Corporation #10,871 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,871/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baicells
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baicells Technologies 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 Belron’s 48.5 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 11.6 pts (24%) Velocity 8.1 pts (17%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anteris · near

49
Beken · near

49
Belron International · this assignee

49
Nidec PSA Emotors · near

49
Velcro Bvba · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Belron's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Belron?

Each dot is one of Belron’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). Belron’s own 17.3 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.

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

Where Belron's grants concentrate

Belron International Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 39.3% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Belron sits between Biogaia AB and Bitvore Corp..

Belron's three-year grant acceleration

Belron International Limited shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Biogaia AB

28
Baicells

28
Battelle Savannah…

28
Bebop Sensors

28
Bench Tree Group

28
Biofire Diagnosti…

28
Bioness

28
Bitvore

28
Belron Internatio… ◀

28

What this shows Belron holds 28 patents at rank #10,874, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Belron

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,874 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Belron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B32B (Layered Products), Belron ranks #353 of 3,088 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Velcro Bvba 49 Beken Corporation 49 Anteris Technologies Corporation 49 Nidec PSA Emotors 49

Belron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Belron International Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.6%
2018	5	17.9%
2019	2	7.1%
2020	3	10.7%
2021	4	14.3%
2022	3	10.7%
2023	5	17.9%
2024	3	10.7%
2025partial year	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Belron International Limited patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 10

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 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 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 4

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 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 3

Top 15 of 27 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

Belron International Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Belron International Limited's lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 39.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #10,871 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Belron International Limited against Biogaia AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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

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.