Where does Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC ranks #5,000 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 Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC hold?

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's Innovation Score?

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC focus on?

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 62 patents, ranking #32 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's recent grant velocity is -81% 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 Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's patents?

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's patents average 16.2 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 Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake 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

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bendix ranks #5,000 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,000
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5000 · US Corporation #5,000 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
TOP-DECILE #5,000/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Astex Therapeutics
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Astex Therapeutics 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 Bendix’s 38.6 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 14.7 pts (38%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Maxwell · near

39
Bendix Spicer… · this assignee

39
CommScope Connectivi… · near

39
Knapp Investment · near

39
Wispry · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bendix's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Bendix?

Each dot is one of Bendix’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). Bendix’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bendix's grants concentrate

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 89.9% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Bendix sits between Astex Therapeutics Limited and Dupont Electronics, Inc..

Astex Therapeutics

69
Augusta Universit…

69
Bambino Prezioso…

69
Bemis Associates

69
Christian Dior Co…

69
Cyber Power Syste…

69
Darwin Precisions

69
Dupont

69
Bendix Spicer Fou… ◀

69

What this shows Bendix holds 69 patents at rank #5,000, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bendix

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,000 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bendix, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Bendix ranks #32 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

CommScope Connectivity Spain, S.L. 39 Wispry, Inc. 39 Knapp Investment Company Limited 39 Maxwell Technologies, Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. 16.2 avg Framatome 16.2 avg Bmic LLC 16.2 avg CertainTeed LLC 16.2 avg

Bendix's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	20.3%
2016	12	17.4%
2017	11	15.9%
2018	11	15.9%
2019	10	14.5%
2020	10	14.5%
2021	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 62

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

B62L - Brakes Specially Adapted FOR Cycles 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

F16H - Gearing 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 89.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #5,000 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC against Astex Therapeutics Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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