Where does Bristol, Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bristol, Inc ranks #11,582 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 Bristol, Inc hold?

Bristol, Inc holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Bristol, Inc's Innovation Score?

Bristol, Inc has an Innovation Score of 40.0 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Bristol, Inc's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Bristol, Inc's patents?

Bristol, Inc's patents average 22.0 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 Bristol, 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

Bristol, Inc

Q: What technology areas does Bristol, Inc focus on?

Bristol, Inc's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 10 patents, ranking #453 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bristol ranks #11,582 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 19 technology areas.

#11,582
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.0/100): 22.0
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11582 · US Corporation #11,582 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,582/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Shannon
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Shannon Limited (±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 Bristol’s 40.0 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 11.4 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.4 pts (39%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intellectual… · near

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Loyola University… · near

40
Bristol · this assignee

40
Sandora Household… · near

40
Turtle Beach · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bristol's Innovation Score is 40.0/100 (top 37% 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 Bristol?

Each dot is one of Bristol’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). Bristol’s own 22.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bristol's grants concentrate

Bristol, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bristol sits between Bixolon Co., Ltd. and Belden Inc..

Bixolon

26
Black Donuts Engi…

26
Bolt Threads

26
Braemar Manufactu…

26
Bullfrog Internat…

26
Bard Shannon

26
Baumueller Nuernb…

26
Belden

26
Bristol ◀

26

What this shows Bristol holds 26 patents at rank #11,574, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bristol

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,574 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bristol, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Bristol ranks #453 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Turtle Beach Corporation 40 Sandora Household Electric Appliances (SHENZHEN) Ltd 40 Loyola University of Chicago 40 Intellectual Property Innovation Corporation 40

Bristol's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bristol, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.5%
2016	1	3.8%
2017	7	26.9%
2018	4	15.4%
2019	8	30.8%
2020	3	11.5%

Which technologies does Bristol, Inc patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 10

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 15 of 19 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

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

Bristol, Inc's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #11,582 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bristol, Inc against Bixolon Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.0/100 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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