Where does Berkshire Grey, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Berkshire Grey, Inc. ranks #4,604 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 Berkshire Grey, Inc. hold?

Berkshire Grey, Inc. holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Berkshire Grey, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Berkshire Grey, Inc. focus on?

Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s top technology area is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices) with 54 patents, ranking #33 of 1,442 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +307% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s patents?

Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s patents average 38.9 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 Berkshire Grey, 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

Berkshire Grey, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Berkshire ranks #4,604 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 22 technology areas.

#4,604
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 38.9
avg claims per patent: +307%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4604 · US Corporation #4,604 · 76 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,604/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aurrion
CPC-FOCUS B25J · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 38.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +307% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aurrion, Inc. (±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 Berkshire’s 46.8 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 15.0 pts (32%) Velocity 0.2 pts (0%) Breadth 16.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amlogic (SHANGHAI) · near

47
Berkshire Grey · this assignee

47
Spectra Systems · near

47
Umbra · near

47
Enlitic · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Berkshire's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Berkshire?

Each dot is one of Berkshire’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). Berkshire’s own 38.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Berkshire's grants concentrate

Berkshire Grey, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 71.1% of grants classified under B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (35 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Berkshire sits between Aurrion, Inc. and Coherus BioSciences, Inc..

Berkshire's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Berkshire Grey, Inc. moved from 68 to 2 grants (0.03x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Aurrion

76
Autonomous Soluti…

76
Biotix

76
Bioverativ Therap…

76
Bottomline

76
Cascades Canada U…

76
Caterpillar Globa…

76
Coherus Bioscienc…

76
Berkshire Grey ◀

76

What this shows Berkshire holds 76 patents at rank #4,606, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Berkshire

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,606 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Berkshire, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25J (Manipulators), Berkshire ranks #33 of 1,442 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Amlogic (SHANGHAI) Co., Ltd. 47 Umbra Technologies Ltd. 47 Spectra Systems Corporation 47 Enlitic, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (38.9 here).

CertusView Technologies, LLC 39.0 avg Vicor Corporation 39.7 avg Kemet Electronics Corporation 37.8 avg Ab Initio Technology LLC 37.7 avg

Berkshire's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Berkshire Grey, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	6	7.9%
2019	9	11.8%
2020	35	46.1%
2021	24	31.6%
2022	2	2.6%

Which technologies does Berkshire Grey, Inc. patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 54

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 47

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 32

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 30

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 6

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

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

Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Berkshire Grey, Inc.'s lead technology class is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices), 71.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25J
Ranked #4,604 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Berkshire Grey, Inc. against Aurrion, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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.