Where does Bystronic Laser AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bystronic Laser AG ranks #5,267 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 Bystronic Laser AG hold?

Bystronic Laser AG holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Bystronic Laser AG's Innovation Score?

Bystronic Laser AG has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bystronic Laser AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bystronic Laser AG's recent grant velocity is +433% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bystronic Laser AG's patents?

Bystronic Laser AG's patents average 15.7 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 Bystronic Laser 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

Bystronic Laser AG

Q: What technology areas does Bystronic Laser AG focus on?

Bystronic Laser AG's top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 43 patents, ranking #47 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 26 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bystronic ranks #5,267 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 26 technology areas.

#5,267
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +433%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5267 · Foreign Corporation #5,267 · 65 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,267/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alta Devices
CPC-FOCUS B23K · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +433% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alta Devices, 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.

How Bystronic’s 57.5 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 14.5 pts (25%) Velocity 15.6 pts (27%) Breadth 18.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bystronic Laser · this assignee

57
Kddi · near

57
Primetals Austria · near

57
Nano and Advanced… · near

57
The PNC Financial… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bystronic's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Bystronic?

Each dot is one of Bystronic’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). Bystronic’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bystronic's grants concentrate

Bystronic Laser AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 66.2% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bystronic sits between Alta Devices, Inc. and Consejo Nacional DE Investigaciones CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET).

Bystronic's three-year grant acceleration

Bystronic Laser AG shows 35 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Alta Devices

65
AZ Materials (Lux…

65
Anthony

65
Buerkert Werke

65
Biomet Biologics

65
Blue Origin

65
Bridgestone Bandag

65
Consejo Nacional…

65
Bystronic Laser ◀

65

What this shows Bystronic holds 65 patents at rank #5,264, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bystronic

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,264 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bystronic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering), Bystronic ranks #47 of 1,623 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH 57 Kddi Corporation 57 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 57 Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

UNIVERSITÉ DE Lille 15.7 avg Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited 15.7 avg The North Face Apparel Corp. 15.7 avg Fellowes, Inc. 15.7 avg

Bystronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Bystronic Laser AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.1%
2016	2	3.1%
2017	1	1.5%
2018	2	3.1%
2019	2	3.1%
2020	6	9.2%
2021	7	10.8%
2022	16	24.6%
2023	9	13.8%
2024	10	15.4%
2025partial year	8	12.3%

Which technologies does Bystronic Laser AG patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 43

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 8

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

B30B - Presses IN General 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

Top 15 of 26 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

Bystronic Laser AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bystronic Laser AG's lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 66.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #5,267 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bystronic Laser AG against Alta Devices, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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