Where does Bently Nevada, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bently Nevada, LLC ranks #9,717 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 Bently Nevada, LLC hold?

Bently Nevada, LLC holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Bently Nevada, LLC's Innovation Score?

Bently Nevada, LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bently Nevada, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bently Nevada, LLC's recent grant velocity is +440% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bently Nevada, LLC's patents?

Bently Nevada, LLC's patents average 15.7 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 Bently Nevada, 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

Bently Nevada, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Bently Nevada, LLC focus on?

Bently Nevada, LLC's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 19 patents, ranking #230 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bently ranks #9,717 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 17 technology areas.

#9,717
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +440%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9717 · US Corporation #9,717 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,717/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Pico…
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +440% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Pico Technology 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 Bently’s 39.1 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 12.1 pts (31%) Velocity 3.0 pts (8%) Breadth 14.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bently Nevada · this assignee

39
Crystal Lagoons… · near

39
NewLeaf Symbiotics · near

39
TEH YOR · near

39
TrueCar · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bently's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Bently?

Each dot is one of Bently’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). Bently’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bently's grants concentrate

Bently Nevada, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 59.4% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Bently sits between Brand GMBH & Co KG and CBF Networks, Inc..

Bently's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bently Nevada, LLC moved from 22 to 10 grants (0.46x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Brand & KG

32
BTL Healthcare A S

32
Beijing Pico Tech…

32
Beijing Tusen Wei…

32
Biontech

32
Biofire Defense

32
Board of Supervis…

32
CBF Networks

32
Bently Nevada ◀

32

What this shows Bently holds 32 patents at rank #9,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bently

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bently, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Bently ranks #230 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. 39 TEH YOR Co., Ltd. 39 TrueCar, Inc. 39 Crystal Lagoons (CURACAO) B.V. 39

Bently's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Bently Nevada, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	5	15.6%
2020	7	21.9%
2021	10	31.3%
2022	4	12.5%
2023	6	18.8%

Which technologies does Bently Nevada, LLC patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 6

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 6

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

F03D - Wind Motors 4

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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

Bently Nevada, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bently Nevada, LLC's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 59.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #9,717 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bently Nevada, LLC against Brand GMBH & Co KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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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