Where does Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. ranks #20,850 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. hold?

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s Innovation Score?

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s recent grant velocity is +60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s patents?

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s patents average 12.5 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 Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. 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

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.

Q: What technology areas does Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. focus on?

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v.'s top technology area is B07B (SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B07B (SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bollegraaf ranks #20,850 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#20,850
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20850 · Foreign Corporation #20,850 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,850/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Blackhawk Specialty…
CPC-FOCUS B07B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Blackhawk Specialty Tools, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bollegraaf Patents A… · this assignee

38
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Bollegraaf's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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 Bollegraaf's grants concentrate

Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 46.2% of grants classified under B07B (SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATE). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bollegraaf sits between Blackhawk Specialty Tools, Llc and Bosch Automotive Products (suzhou) Co. Ltd..

Blackhawk Special…

13
Blanqi

13
Bleckmann & KG

13
Bluescope Buildin…

13
Bollhoff Otalu

13
Borgwarner Emissi…

13
Borregaard AS

13
Bosch Automotive…

13
Bollegraaf Patent… ◀

13

What this shows Bollegraaf holds 13 patents at rank #20,863, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bollegraaf

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,863 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B07B (Separating Solids FROM Solids BY Sieving)

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

Bollegraaf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	15.4%
2017	1	7.7%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	1	7.7%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	3	23.1%
2023	2	15.4%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Bollegraaf Patents And Brands B.v. patent most?

B07B - SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL 6

B30B - PRESSES IN GENERAL 3

B65B - MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING 3

A01F - PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE; HAY OR STRAW PRESSES; DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE 3

B07C - POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 2

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 2

F16D - COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES 1

A01D - HARVESTING; MOWING 1

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 1

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,850

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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