Where does BVW Holding Ag rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BVW Holding Ag ranks #7,245 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does BVW Holding Ag hold?

BVW Holding Ag holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is BVW Holding Ag's Innovation Score?

BVW Holding Ag has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BVW Holding Ag's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BVW Holding Ag's recent grant velocity is +371% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BVW Holding Ag's patents?

BVW Holding Ag's patents average 16.6 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 BVW Holding Ag 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

BVW Holding Ag

Q: What technology areas does BVW Holding Ag focus on?

BVW Holding Ag's top technology area is A61L (METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES) with 25 patents. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 29 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: A61L (METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BVW ranks #7,245 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,245
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +371%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7245 · Foreign Corporation #7,245 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,245/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Apollo Endosurgery
CPC-FOCUS A61L · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +371% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. (±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
BVW Holding · this assignee

55
Intermolecular · near

55
Liquid Wire · near

55
Composecure · near

55
General Motors · near

55
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows BVW Holding Ag stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #7,245 of 50,000; Innovation Score 54.5/100 sits in the top 8% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

BVW Holding Ag has been granted 45 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing BVW Holding Ag at #7,245 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 29 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61L (METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES;). As a Foreign Corporation, BVW Holding Ag is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, BVW sits between Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. (45 patents, rank #7,235) and Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (45 patents, rank #7,243) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 54.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 33 grants, compared with 7 in the 2015–2019 window, a +371% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. BVW Holding Ag's 16.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 29 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Apollo Endosurgery

45
Atlas Global

45
Aurora Flight Sci…

45
Avegant

45
Baltimore Aircoil

45
Bandwidth

45
Beijing Wodong Ti…

45
Biocryst Pharmace…

45
BVW Holding ◀

45

What this shows BVW holds 45 patents at rank #7,239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BVW

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61L (Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Liquid Wire Inc. 55 Intermolecular, Inc. 55 Composecure, Llc 55 General Motors Llc 55

BVW's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% of 50,000 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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BVW Holding Ag patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.2%
2018	2	4.4%
2019	4	8.9%
2020	3	6.7%
2021	6	13.3%
2022	11	24.4%
2023	5	11.1%
2024	8	17.8%
2025partial year	5	11.1%

Which technologies does BVW Holding Ag patent most?

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 25

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 16

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 9

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 9

B81B - MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS, e.g. MICROMECHANICAL DEVICES 8

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 7

B81C - PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS 7

A41D - OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES 6

B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL 6

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 4

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 4

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 3

D10B - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES 3

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,245

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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