Where does Bradford Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bradford Company ranks #6,627 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 Bradford Company hold?

Bradford Company holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Bradford Company's Innovation Score?

Bradford Company has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bradford Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bradford Company's recent grant velocity is -77% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Bradford Company's patents?

Bradford Company's patents average 21.1 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 Bradford Company 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

Bradford Company

Q: What technology areas does Bradford Company focus on?

Bradford Company's top technology area is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages) with 48 patents, ranking #51 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 16 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: B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bradford ranks #6,627 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 16 technology areas.

#6,627
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6627 · US Corporation #6,627 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,627/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Altor Bioscience
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Altor Bioscience 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.

How Bradford’s 45.1 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 13.6 pts (30%) Velocity 4.8 pts (11%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf Agro B V · near

45
Bradford · this assignee

45
Doosan · near

45
Euroimmun Medizinisc… · near

45
K-fee System · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bradford's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 Bradford?

Each dot is one of Bradford’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). Bradford’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bradford's grants concentrate

Bradford Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 96% of grants classified under B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Bradford sits between Altor Bioscience LLC and Chinese Research Academy OF Environmental Sciences.

Bradford's three-year grant acceleration

Bradford Company shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Altor Bioscience

50
Beijing Youzhuju…

50
Barrette Outdoor…

50
Beigene

50
British Columbia…

50
Central Garden &…

50
Chdi Foundation

50
Chinese Research…

50
Bradford ◀

50

What this shows Bradford holds 50 patents at rank #6,627, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bradford

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,627 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bradford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Bradford ranks #51 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Doosan Corporation 45 K-fee System GMBH 45 Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG 45 Basf Agro B.V. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.1 here).

Server Technology, Inc. 21.1 avg Valens Semiconductor Ltd. 21.1 avg MasterCraft Boat Company, LLC 21.1 avg Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 21.1 avg

Bradford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Bradford Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	22.0%
2016	11	22.0%
2017	11	22.0%
2018	4	8.0%
2019	3	6.0%
2020	3	6.0%
2021	1	2.0%
2022	2	4.0%
2024	3	6.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Bradford Company patent most?

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 48

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 9

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 6

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 5

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

B30B - Presses IN General 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Bradford Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bradford Company's lead technology class is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F), 96% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #6,627 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bradford Company against Altor Bioscience LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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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