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Bitmovin GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bitmovin ranks #12,839 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 5 technology areas.

#12,839
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100)
17.1
avg claims per patent
+500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12839 · Foreign Corporation #12,839 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
  • MID-PACK #12,839/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Beam Authentic
  • CPC-NARROW H04N · 5 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +500% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beam Authentic, 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 Bitmovin’s 37.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Bitmovin

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Bitmovin's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Bitmovin?

Each dot is one of Bitmovin’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). Bitmovin’s own 17.1 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.

Bitmovin vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 22.922.92323.1 05101520 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Beam Authentic, Inc. - 23, 4.13Beam AuthenticBeijing Normal University - 23, 11.96Beijing Normal Un…Big Belly Solar LLC - 23, 19Big Belly SolarBiosensors International Group, Ltd. - 23, 17.43Biosensors Intern…BladeLogic, Inc. - 23, 19.13BladelogicBlu Wireless Technology Limited - 23, 17.87Blu Wireless Tech…Blue Ocean Robotics, ApS - 23, 13.7Blue Ocean Roboti…Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama - 23, 19.17Board of Trustees…Bitmovin GmbH - 23, 17.13Bitmovin
Bitmovin vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Bitmovin's grants concentrate

Bitmovin GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 87% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bitmovin sits between Beam Authentic, Inc. and Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama.

Bitmovin's three-year grant acceleration

Bitmovin GmbH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Who files at Bitmovin's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Bitmovin holds 23 patents at rank #12,844, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Bitmovin

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,844 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Bitmovin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bitmovin GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2017 1 4.3%
2019 2 8.7%
2020 1 4.3%
2021 6 26.1%
2022 1 4.3%
2023 3 13.0%
2024 7 30.4%
2025partial year 2 8.7%

Which technologies does Bitmovin GmbH patent most?

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Bitmovin GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Bitmovin GmbH's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 87% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
  • Ranked #12,839 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Bitmovin GmbH against Beam Authentic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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

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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

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.