Where does Bissell Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bissell Inc. ranks #1,368 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 Bissell Inc. hold?

Bissell Inc. holds 306 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Bissell Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bissell Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bissell Inc. focus on?

Bissell Inc.'s top technology area is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General) with 220 patents, ranking #7 of 516 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bissell Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Bissell Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Bissell Inc.'s patents?

Bissell Inc.'s patents average 14.4 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 Bissell 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

Bissell Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 306 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bissell ranks #1,368 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 306 patents across 34 technology areas.

#1,368
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.6/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1368 · US Corporation #1,368 · 306 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 306 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,368/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alfa Laval Corporate…
CPC-FOCUS A47L · 34 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alfa Laval Corporate AB (±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 Bissell’s 60.6 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 19.8 pts (33%) Velocity 11.6 pts (19%) Breadth 20.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Teknologian… · near

61
medmix Switzerland · near

61
Bissell · this assignee

61
Government of the… · near

61
Picosun Oy · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bissell's Innovation Score is 60.6/100 (top 3% 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 Bissell?

Each dot is one of Bissell’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). Bissell’s own 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bissell's grants concentrate

Bissell Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 71.9% of grants classified under A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (79 grants) versus a trough of 24 in 2020. By volume, Bissell sits between Southwest Petroleum University and FMR LLC.

Bissell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bissell Inc. moved from 101 to 175 grants (1.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #302. See the growth leaderboard.

Southwest Petrole…

307
The Chinese Unive…

307
Verizon Media

307
Alfa Laval Corpor…

306
Cedars Sinai Medi…

306
Coulter Ventures

306
DRÄGerwerk & Kgaa

306
FMR

306
Bissell ◀

306

What this shows Bissell holds 306 patents at rank #1,368, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bissell

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,368 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bissell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning), Bissell ranks #7 of 516 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce 61 medmix Switzerland AG 61 Picosun Oy 61 Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

HFI Innovation Inc. 14.4 avg Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd 14.4 avg UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ 14.4 avg North Inc. 14.4 avg

Bissell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Bissell Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	24	7.8%
2021	77	25.2%
2022	39	12.7%
2023	79	25.8%
2024	57	18.6%
2025partial year	30	9.8%

Which technologies does Bissell Inc. patent most?

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 220

A46B - Brushes 38

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 16

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 11

B01D - Separation 10

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 10

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 8

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 6

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 5

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 4

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 4

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 3

Top 15 of 34 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

Bissell Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bissell Inc.'s lead technology class is A47L (Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General), 71.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47L
Ranked #1,368 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bissell Inc. against Southwest Petroleum University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.6/100 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

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