Where does Bridgestone Bandag, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bridgestone Bandag, LLC ranks #5,265 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 Bandag, LLC hold?

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's Innovation Score?

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bridgestone Bandag, LLC focus on?

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's top technology area is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State) with 34 patents, ranking #30 of 946 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's patents?

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's patents average 10.2 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.

How is the Bridgestone Bandag, 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 20 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: B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bridgestone ranks #5,265 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,265
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5265 · US Corporation #5,265 · 65 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,265/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Biomet Biologics
CPC-FOCUS B29D · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biomet Biologics, 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
Bridgestone Bandag · this assignee

42
Ecopro BM · near

42
Prince Castle · near

42
Restoration Robotics · near

42
Vapotherm · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bridgestone's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Bridgestone's grants concentrate

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 52.3% of grants classified under B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Bridgestone sits between Buerkert Werke GMBH and Comfort Research, LLC.

Bridgestone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bridgestone Bandag, LLC moved from 20 to 18 grants (0.90x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Buerkert Werke

65
Bystronic Laser

65
Biomet Biologics

65
Blue Origin

65
Consejo Nacional…

65
Croda Internation…

65
Cigna Intellectua…

65
Comfort Research

65
Bridgestone Bandag ◀

65

What this shows Bridgestone holds 65 patents at rank #5,267, 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 #5,267 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…)

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). In B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…), Bridgestone ranks #30 of 946 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Restoration Robotics, Inc. 42 Prince Castle LLC 42 Ecopro BM Co., Ltd. 42 Vapotherm, Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH 10.2 avg Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd. 10.2 avg Building Materials Investment Corporation 10.2 avg Dowa Metaltech Co., Ltd. 10.2 avg

Bridgestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Bridgestone Bandag, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	6.2%
2017	12	18.5%
2018	4	6.2%
2019	10	15.4%
2020	3	4.6%
2021	7	10.8%
2022	2	3.1%
2023	4	6.2%
2024	12	18.5%
2025partial year	7	10.8%

Which technologies does Bridgestone Bandag, LLC patent most?

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 34

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 11

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 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 2

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 2

A46B - Brushes 2

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 2

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 2

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

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 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,265

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.4 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 Bandag, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bridgestone Bandag, LLC's lead technology class is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State), 52.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29D
Ranked #5,265 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bridgestone Bandag, LLC against Buerkert Werke GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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