Where does Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. ranks #10,872 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 Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. hold?

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.9 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s patents?

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Belvac Production Machinery, 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

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. focus on?

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 24 patents, ranking #29 of 818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 22 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Belvac ranks #10,872 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 22 technology areas.

#10,872
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.9/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10872 · US Corporation #10,872 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,872/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Automatic Switch
CPC-FOCUS B21D · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Automatic Switch Company (±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 Belvac’s 47.9 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 9.2 pts (19%) Breadth 16.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Belvac Production… · this assignee

48
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

48
CG Oncology · near

48
Mapi Pharma · near

48
UPM Raflatac OY · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Belvac's Innovation Score is 47.9/100 (top 18% 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 Belvac?

Each dot is one of Belvac’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). Belvac’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Belvac's grants concentrate

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Belvac sits between Automatic Switch Company and BeBop Sensors, Inc..

Belvac's three-year grant acceleration

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Automatic Switch

28
B G Negev AND App…

28
BAE Systems Land…

28
Beijing Kongming…

28
Biogaia AB

28
Baicells

28
Battelle Savannah…

28
Bebop Sensors

28
Belvac Production… ◀

28

What this shows Belvac holds 28 patents at rank #10,869, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Belvac

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,869 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Belvac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes), Belvac ranks #29 of 818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Mapi Pharma Ltd. 48 UPM Raflatac OY 48 Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Hallstadt 48 CG Oncology, Inc. 48

Belvac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.7%
2016	1	3.6%
2018	1	3.6%
2019	3	10.7%
2020	4	14.3%
2021	1	3.6%
2022	2	7.1%
2023	5	17.9%
2024	4	14.3%
2025partial year	4	14.3%

Which technologies does Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 24

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 10

B30B - Presses IN General 4

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 4

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 4

B23C - Milling 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23B - TURNING; Boring 2

F16H - Gearing 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Belvac Production Machinery, Inc.'s lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #10,872 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. against Automatic Switch Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.9/100 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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