Where does Besser Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Besser Company ranks #25,865 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 Besser Company hold?

Besser Company holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Besser Company's Innovation Score?

Besser Company has an Innovation Score of 39.3 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 Besser Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Besser Company's recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Besser Company's patents?

Besser Company's patents average 9.4 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 Besser Company 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

Besser Company

Q: What technology areas does Besser Company focus on?

Besser Company's top technology area is B28B (Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster) with 6 patents, ranking #43 of 316 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B28B (Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Besser ranks #25,865 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 6 technology areas.

#25,865
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25865 · US Corporation #25,865 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,865/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bell Laboratories
CPC-NARROW B28B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bell Laboratories, 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 Besser’s 39.3 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 8.3 pts (21%) Velocity 16.7 pts (42%) Breadth 8.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Besser · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Besser's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (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 Besser?

Each dot is one of Besser’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). Besser’s own 9.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Besser's grants concentrate

Besser Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under B28B (Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Besser sits between Bell Laboratories, Inc. and Bidgely, Inc..

Besser's three-year grant acceleration

Besser Company shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Bell Laboratories

10
Bellco S R L

10
Belletorus

10
Bend Labs

10
Bestop Baja

10
Beteiligungen Sor…

10
Bial—R&D Investme…

10
Bidgely

10
Besser ◀

10

What this shows Besser holds 10 patents at rank #25,898, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Besser

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,898 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B28B (Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic Compositions)

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

Besser'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Besser Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2023	4	40.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Besser Company patent most?

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 6

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 2

B30B - Presses IN General 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Besser Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Besser Company's lead technology class is B28B (Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B28B
Ranked #25,865 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Besser Company against Bell Laboratories, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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