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 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 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. 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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 26 technology areas.

#5,267
of 50,000 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 #5,267/50,000
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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bystronic Laser · this assignee

57
KDDI · near

57
Primetals Austria · near

57
Nano And Advanced Ma… · near

57
The PNC Financial Se… · near

57
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Bystronic Laser Ag stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,267 of 50,000; Innovation Score 57.5/100 sits in the top 5% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is ALTA Devices, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Bystronic Laser Ag has been granted 65 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Bystronic Laser Ag at #5,267 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 26 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 15.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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). As a Foreign Corporation, Bystronic Laser Ag is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Bystronic sits between ALTA Devices, Inc. (65 patents, rank #5,260) and Consejo Nacional DE Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas (conicet) (65 patents, rank #5,268) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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 48 grants, compared with 9 in the 2015–2019 window, a +433% 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. Bystronic Laser Ag's 15.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 26 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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).

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 50,000 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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,267

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.5 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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