Where does Buster and Punch Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Buster and Punch Limited ranks #7,535 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 Buster and Punch Limited hold?

Buster and Punch Limited holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Buster and Punch Limited's Innovation Score?

Buster and Punch Limited has an Innovation Score of 36.9 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Buster and Punch Limited focus on?

Buster and Punch Limited's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 1 patents, ranking #3,545 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Buster and Punch Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Buster and Punch Limited's recent grant velocity is +77% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Buster and Punch Limited's patents?

Buster and Punch Limited's patents average 1.9 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 Buster and Punch Limited 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

Buster and Punch Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 6 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Buster ranks #7,535 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 6 technology areas.

#7,535
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 1.9
avg claims per patent: +77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7535 · Foreign Corporation #7,535 · 43 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,535/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bank of Montreal
CPC-NARROW G02B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bank of Montreal (±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 Buster’s 36.9 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 13.1 pts (36%) Velocity 14.0 pts (38%) Breadth 8.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 1.1 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Buster and Punch · this assignee

37
Geospace · near

37
Joyetech Europe… · near

37
Kuhn · near

37
Lehigh · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Buster's Innovation Score is 36.9/100 (top 45% 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 Buster?

Each dot is one of Buster’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). Buster’s own 1.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Buster's grants concentrate

Buster and Punch Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 2.3% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Buster sits between Bank of Montreal and Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd..

Buster's three-year grant acceleration

Buster and Punch Limited shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Bank of Montreal

43
Bioatla

43
Bracco Suisse

43
Bruin Biometrics

43
Calb

43
Carefusion 207

43
Center FOR Integr…

43
Chongqing BOE Dis…

43
Buster and Punch ◀

43

What this shows Buster holds 43 patents at rank #7,535, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Buster

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,535 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Buster, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Buster ranks #3,545 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Kuhn S.A. 37 Joyetech Europe Holding GmbH 37 Lehigh Technologies, Inc. 37 Geospace Technologies Corporation 37

Buster's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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Buster and Punch Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.3%
2017	2	4.7%
2018	2	4.7%
2019	8	18.6%
2020	1	2.3%
2021	1	2.3%
2022	4	9.3%
2023	10	23.3%
2024	7	16.3%
2025partial year	7	16.3%

Which technologies does Buster and Punch Limited patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Buster and Punch Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Buster and Punch Limited's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 2.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #7,535 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Buster and Punch Limited against Bank of Montreal, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.9/100 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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