Overall rank by patents
#4,107
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, BIC ranks #4,107 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 44 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R4107 · Foreign Corporation #4,107 · 87 grants
GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH
Nearest grant-volume peer: Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC (±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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Continental Automotive · near
69 score
Nokia Solutions AND… · near
69 score
BIC Violex Single… · this assignee
69 score
Delta (Shanghai) · near
69 score
MediaTek Singapore Pte · near
69 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows BIC's Innovation Score is 69.3/100 (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.
BIC Violex Single Member S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 71.3% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (26 grants) versus a trough of 15 in 2022. By volume, BIC sits between Toray Plastics (America), Inc. and Chanel Parfums Beaute.
BIC Violex Single Member S.A. shows 65 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
88 patents
WIN Semiconductors Corp.
88 patents
Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC
87 patents
Belimo Holding AG
87 patents
Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd.
87 patents
Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville
87 patents
Cellectis
87 patents
Chanel Parfums Beaute
87 patents
BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
87 patents
What this shows BIC holds 87 patents at rank #4,106, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #4,106 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in BIC's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BIC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).
BIC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
69 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
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15 | 17.2% |
| 2023 | 24 | 27.6% |
| 2024 | 26 | 29.9% |
| 2025partial year | 22 | 25.3% |
Top 15 of 44 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#4,107
of 49,997 tracked assignees
69.3 out of 100
What to do with this data
BIC Violex Single Member S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.
Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
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.