Where does Bridgestone Europe NV/SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bridgestone Europe NV/SA ranks #3,423 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 Europe NV/SA hold?

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA holds 108 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's Innovation Score?

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's recent grant velocity is +1117% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's patents?

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's patents average 7.7 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 Europe NV/SA 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

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA

Q: What technology areas does Bridgestone Europe NV/SA focus on?

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA'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 30 patents, ranking #22 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 108 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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 #3,423 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 108 patents across 34 technology areas.

#3,423
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 7.7
avg claims per patent: +1117%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3423 · Foreign Corporation #3,423 · 108 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 108 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,423/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Oy
CPC-FOCUS B60C · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1117% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Oy (±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 Bridgestone’s 53.4 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 16.2 pts (30%) Velocity 11.9 pts (22%) Breadth 20.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 4.6 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amicus Therapeutics · near

53
Brain Tunnelgenix · near

53
Bridgestone Europe / · this assignee

53
JFrog · near

53
Sogang University… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bridgestone's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Bridgestone?

Each dot is one of Bridgestone’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). Bridgestone’s own 7.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bridgestone's grants concentrate

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 27.8% of grants classified under B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (30 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Bridgestone sits between Vixs Systems, Inc. and Ecosense Lighting Inc..

Bridgestone's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bridgestone Europe NV/SA moved from 28 to 50 grants (1.79x 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 #278. See the growth leaderboard.

Vixs Systems

109
ABB Oy

108
Berry Global

108
Bradley Fixtures

108
Böllhoff Verbindu…

108
Celgard

108
DJO

108
Ecosense Lighting

108
Bridgestone Europ… ◀

108

What this shows Bridgestone holds 108 patents at rank #3,423, 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 #3,423 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). In B60C (Vehicle Tyres), Bridgestone ranks #22 of 319 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Sogang University Research Foundation 53 Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. 53 JFrog Ltd. 53 Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Corp. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.7 here).

Blackpin Inc. 7.7 avg Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.7 avg PHC Holdings Corporation 7.7 avg Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited 7.7 avg

Bridgestone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bridgestone Europe NV/SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.9%
2019	5	4.6%
2020	15	13.9%
2021	8	7.4%
2022	11	10.2%
2023	9	8.3%
2024	30	27.8%
2025partial year	29	26.9%

Which technologies does Bridgestone Europe NV/SA patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 30

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 28

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 12

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 8

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 6

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

Top 15 of 34 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

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bridgestone Europe NV/SA'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), 27.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #3,423 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bridgestone Europe NV/SA against Vixs Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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