Where does Bfly Operations, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bfly Operations, Inc. ranks #3,060 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 Bfly Operations, Inc. hold?

Bfly Operations, Inc. holds 124 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Bfly Operations, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bfly Operations, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bfly Operations, Inc. focus on?

Bfly Operations, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 83 patents, ranking #221 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bfly Operations, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Bfly Operations, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Bfly Operations, Inc.'s patents?

Bfly Operations, Inc.'s patents average 15.4 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 Bfly Operations, 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 Foreign Corporation

Bfly Operations, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 124 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bfly ranks #3,060 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 124 patents across 31 technology areas.

#3,060
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.6/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3060 · Foreign Corporation #3,060 · 124 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 124 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,060/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acceleron Pharma
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 31 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acceleron Pharma 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 Bfly’s 65.6 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 16.7 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 19.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Boston Scientific… · near

66
Bfly Operations · this assignee

66
Corteva Agriscience · near

66
Nintendo · near

66
Woven Planet North… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bfly's Innovation Score is 65.6/100 (top 1% 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 Bfly?

Each dot is one of Bfly’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). Bfly’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bfly's grants concentrate

Bfly Operations, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 66.9% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (51 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2021. By volume, Bfly sits between Acceleron Pharma Inc. and Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH.

Bfly's three-year grant acceleration

Bfly Operations, Inc. shows 104 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Acceleron Pharma

124
Arianegroup SAS

124
Avaya Management

124
Beijing Goldwind…

124
Biamp Systems

124
Chung ANG Univers…

124
Current Lighting…

124
Continental Autom…

124
Bfly Operations ◀

124

What this shows Bfly holds 124 patents at rank #3,060, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bfly

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,060 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bfly, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Bfly ranks #221 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation 66 Corteva Agriscience LLC 66 Woven Planet North America, Inc. 66 Nintendo Co., Ltd. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Evonik Röhm GmbH 15.4 avg China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute 15.4 avg Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH 15.4 avg Ineos Styrolution Group GMBH 15.4 avg

Bfly's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Bfly Operations, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	7	5.6%
2022	30	24.2%
2023	51	41.1%
2024	23	18.5%
2025partial year	13	10.5%

Which technologies does Bfly Operations, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 83

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 50

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 49

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 22

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 15

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H03F - Amplifiers 8

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 6

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 6

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Bfly Operations, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bfly Operations, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 66.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,060 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bfly Operations, Inc. against Acceleron Pharma Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.6/100 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

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.