Where does Bettcher Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bettcher Industries, Inc. ranks #6,418 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 Bettcher Industries, Inc. hold?

Bettcher Industries, Inc. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bettcher Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bettcher Industries, Inc. focus on?

Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 38 patents, ranking #8 of 239 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Bettcher Industries, 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

Bettcher Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 12 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: B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bettcher ranks #6,418 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 12 technology areas.

#6,418
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6418 · US Corporation #6,418 · 52 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,418/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Autolus
CPC-FOCUS B26B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Autolus 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 Bettcher’s 44.3 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 13.7 pts (31%) Velocity 7.1 pts (16%) Breadth 12.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asahi Seiko · near

44
Bettcher Industries · this assignee

44
Canon U S Life… · near

44
John Snow Labs · near

44
Musco · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bettcher's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Bettcher?

Each dot is one of Bettcher’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). Bettcher’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bettcher's grants concentrate

Bettcher Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 73.1% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2017. By volume, Bettcher sits between Autolus Limited and Convatec Limited.

Bettcher's three-year grant acceleration

Bettcher Industries, Inc. shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Autolus

52
Barnett Outdoors

52
Behr-hella Thermo…

52
BSN Medical

52
Biocon

52
Cameron Solutions

52
Chyng Hong

52
Convatec

52
Bettcher Industri… ◀

52

What this shows Bettcher holds 52 patents at rank #6,419, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bettcher

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,419 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bettcher, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools), Bettcher ranks #8 of 239 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Asahi Seiko Co., Ltd. 44 Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. 44 Musco Corporation 44 John Snow Labs, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Caavo Inc 18.6 avg Seven Bridges Genomics Inc. 18.6 avg Liebherr-werk Biberach GMBH 18.6 avg Amphenol Corporation 18.6 avg

Bettcher's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Bettcher Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	11.5%
2016	7	13.5%
2017	4	7.7%
2018	5	9.6%
2019	4	7.7%
2020	4	7.7%
2021	6	11.5%
2022	6	11.5%
2023	5	9.6%
2024	4	7.7%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Bettcher Industries, Inc. patent most?

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 38

A22B - Slaughtering 30

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 30

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 11

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 8

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

F16H - Gearing 2

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bettcher Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 73.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26B
Ranked #6,418 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bettcher Industries, Inc. against Autolus Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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