Where does Bixolon Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bixolon Co., Ltd. ranks #11,575 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 Bixolon Co., Ltd. hold?

Bixolon Co., Ltd. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Bixolon Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.8 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.7 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 Bixolon Co., Ltd. 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

Bixolon Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Bixolon Co., Ltd. focus on?

Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 19 patents, ranking #81 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 14 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bixolon ranks #11,575 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 14 technology areas.

#11,575
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.8/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11575 · Foreign Corporation #11,575 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,575/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beet
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beet, 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 Bixolon’s 47.8 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 11.4 pts (24%) Velocity 15.6 pts (33%) Breadth 13.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bixolon · this assignee

48
Danby Products · near

48
GEM · near

48
Hanwha Defense · near

48
Marposs Societa'… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bixolon's Innovation Score is 47.8/100 (top 18% 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 Bixolon?

Each dot is one of Bixolon’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). Bixolon’s own 12.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bixolon's grants concentrate

Bixolon Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 73.1% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bixolon sits between Beet, Inc. and Bristol, Inc.

Bixolon's three-year grant acceleration

Bixolon Co., Ltd. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Beet

26
Benelli Armi S P A

26
Best

26
Beumer Group & KG

26
Black Donuts Engi…

26
Bolt Threads

26
Braemar Manufactu…

26
Bristol

26
Bixolon ◀

26

What this shows Bixolon holds 26 patents at rank #11,570, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bixolon

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,570 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bixolon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Bixolon ranks #81 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Marposs Societa' Per Azioni 48 Hanwha Defense Co., Ltd. 48 Danby Products Limited 48 GEM Co., Ltd. 48

Bixolon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Bixolon Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.8%
2018	3	11.5%
2019	2	7.7%
2020	4	15.4%
2022	6	23.1%
2023	5	19.2%
2024	3	11.5%
2025partial year	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Bixolon Co., Ltd. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

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 5

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 4

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bixolon Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 73.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #11,575 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bixolon Co., Ltd. against Beet, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.8/100 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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