Where does Bobst Bielefeld GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bobst Bielefeld GMBH ranks #12,846 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 Bobst Bielefeld GMBH hold?

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's Innovation Score?

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bobst Bielefeld GMBH focus on?

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's top technology area is B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's recent grant velocity is +900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's patents?

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's patents average 14.3 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 Bobst Bielefeld GMBH 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

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bobst ranks #12,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 8 technology areas.

#12,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: +900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12846 · Foreign Corporation #12,846 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #12,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Biocartis
CPC-NARROW B41F · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biocartis, NV (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bobst Bielefeld · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bobst's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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.

Where Bobst's grants concentrate

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 95.7% of grants classified under B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bobst sits between Biocartis, NV and BWI (Shanghai) Co., Ltd..

Bobst's three-year grant acceleration

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Biocartis

23
Biophore India Ph…

23
Blue SKY Innovati…

23
Blueshift Materia…

23
Boegli-gravures

23
Bridgepoint Medic…

23
Bruni Glass S P A

23
BWI (Shanghai)

23
Bobst Bielefeld ◀

23

What this shows Bobst holds 23 patents at rank #12,834, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bobst

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,834 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses)

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

Bobst's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bobst Bielefeld GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.3%
2018	1	4.3%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	2	8.7%
2022	3	13.0%
2023	5	21.7%
2024	9	39.1%
2025partial year	1	4.3%

Which technologies does Bobst Bielefeld GMBH patent most?

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 22

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 13

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 3

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#12,846

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bobst Bielefeld GMBH's lead technology class is B41F (Printing Machines OR Presses), 95.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41F
Ranked #12,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bobst Bielefeld GMBH against Biocartis, NV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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.