Where does Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC ranks #918 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 Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC hold?

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC holds 485 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's Innovation Score?

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's recent grant velocity is +34% 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 Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's patents?

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's patents average 11.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC focus on?

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 261 patents. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC 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 PatentsView assignee record - 485 granted patents across 69 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bridgestone ranks #918 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 485 patents across 69 technology areas.

#918
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 11.2
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R918 · US Corporation #918 · 485 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 485 grants
TOP-DECILE #918/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Laboratories
CPC-WIDE B60C · 69 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Laboratories (±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
Hanwha Techwin · near

58
Owens Corning… · near

58
Bridgestone… · this assignee

58
Oki Electric Industry · near

58
Under Armour · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bridgestone's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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.

How Bridgestone's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC received 251 grants versus 187 in 2015–2019 (+34% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 61 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 24. Lead class B60C accounts for 53.8% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Wistron Neweb Corp. (#914) and Atmel Corporation (#922).

Bridgestone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC moved from 172 to 136 grants (0.79x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,872. See the growth leaderboard.

Wistron Neweb

489
Biomet Manufactur…

488
University-indust…

488
Abbott Laboratori…

485
Johnson & Johnson…

485
Bridgestone Ameri… ◀

485
Rhodia Operations

484
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

484
Atmel

483

What this shows Bridgestone holds 485 patents at rank #918, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bridgestone

By rank, the assignees closest to #918 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bridgestone, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Under Armour, Inc. 58 Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. 58 Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. 58 Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.2 here).

Canon Anelva Corporation 11.2 avg Toyo INK SC Holdings Co., Ltd. 11.2 avg International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o.o. 11.2 avg Tokyo Institute of Technology 11.2 avg

Bridgestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	7.4%
2016	24	4.9%
2017	40	8.2%
2018	30	6.2%
2019	57	11.8%
2020	59	12.2%
2021	56	11.5%
2022	30	6.2%
2023	45	9.3%
2024	61	12.6%
2025partial year	47	9.7%

Which technologies does Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 261

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 115

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 69

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 68

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 33

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 25

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 21

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 13

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 13

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 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

Top 15 of 69 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#918

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.3 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

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 53.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #918 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC against Wistron Neweb Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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

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