Where does Bourns, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bourns, Inc. ranks #7,382 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 Bourns, Inc. hold?

Bourns, Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Bourns, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bourns, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 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%).

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

Bourns, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +5% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Bourns, Inc.'s patents average 20.3 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 Bourns, 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

Bourns, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bourns, Inc. focus on?

Bourns, Inc.'s top technology area is G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 18 patents, ranking #58 of 1,381 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 29 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: G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bourns ranks #7,382 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,382
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7382 · US Corporation #7,382 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,382/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Huamei
CPC-FOCUS G01D · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Huamei, 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 Bourns’s 50.1 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 13.1 pts (26%) Velocity 5.7 pts (11%) Breadth 19.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Honda Motor · near

50
Bourns · this assignee

50
GIESECKE+DEVRIENT… · near

50
Inovio Pharmaceuticals · near

50
Spiber · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bourns's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Bourns?

Each dot is one of Bourns’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). Bourns’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bourns's grants concentrate

Bourns, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 40.9% of grants classified under G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Bourns sits between Beijing Huamei, Inc. and Coretech System Co., Ltd..

Bourns's three-year grant acceleration

Bourns, Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Beijing Huamei

44
Belenos Clean Pow…

44
Bluehalo

44
Bombardier Primove

44
Cardinal Health S…

44
Catholic Universi…

44
Consolidated Edis…

44
Coretech System

44
Bourns ◀

44

What this shows Bourns holds 44 patents at rank #7,383, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bourns

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,383 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific Variable)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bourns, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific Variable), Bourns ranks #58 of 1,381 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Spiber Inc. 50 Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 50 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. 50 GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Mobile Security GMBH 50

Bourns'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 · 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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Bourns, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	6.8%
2016	6	13.6%
2017	5	11.4%
2018	3	6.8%
2019	4	9.1%
2020	5	11.4%
2021	5	11.4%
2022	3	6.8%
2023	3	6.8%
2024	6	13.6%
2025partial year	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Bourns, Inc. patent most?

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 18

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 6

H01T - Spark GAPS; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark GAPS; Sparking PLUGS; Corona DEVICES; Generating Ions TO BE Introduced Into Non-enclosed Gases 6

H01C - Resistors 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 5

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 4

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

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

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Bourns, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT), 40.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01D
Ranked #7,382 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bourns, Inc. against Beijing Huamei, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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