Where does Flir Belgium Bvba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Flir Belgium Bvba ranks #5,206 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 Flir Belgium Bvba hold?

Flir Belgium Bvba holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Flir Belgium Bvba's Innovation Score?

Flir Belgium Bvba has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Flir Belgium Bvba's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Flir Belgium Bvba's recent grant velocity is +269% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Flir Belgium Bvba's patents?

Flir Belgium Bvba's patents average 17.2 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 Flir Belgium Bvba 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

Flir Belgium Bvba

Q: What technology areas does Flir Belgium Bvba focus on?

Flir Belgium Bvba's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 35 patents, ranking #181 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Flir ranks #5,206 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 28 technology areas.

#5,206
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +269%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5206 · Foreign Corporation #5,206 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,206/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canon U S Life…
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +269% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canon U.S. Life Sciences, 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
Belimo Holding · near

49
Dassault Systemes… · near

49
Deutsches Krebsforsc… · near

49
Flir Belgium Bvba · this assignee

49
Panasonic Healthcare… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Flir's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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.

Where Flir's grants concentrate

Flir Belgium Bvba is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 53% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Flir sits between CSL Limited and Hyundai Autoever Corp..

Flir's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Flir Belgium Bvba moved from 31 to 27 grants (0.87x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

CSL

66
Canon U S Life Sc…

66
Dionex Softron

66
Ecole Polytechniq…

66
Hamilton Bonaduz

66
Hebei Wanda Tyre

66
HP Scitex

66
Hyundai Autoever

66
Flir Belgium Bvba ◀

66

What this shows Flir holds 66 patents at rank #5,206, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Flir

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,206 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Flir, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Flir ranks #181 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp. 49 Belimo Holding AG 49 Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum 49 Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

Think Surgical, Inc. 17.2 avg Sun Hydraulics, LLC 17.2 avg Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd. 17.2 avg Soraa, Inc. 17.2 avg

Flir's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Flir Belgium Bvba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.5%
2018	2	3.0%
2019	10	15.2%
2020	12	18.2%
2021	9	13.6%
2022	11	16.7%
2023	5	7.6%
2024	11	16.7%
2025partial year	5	7.6%

Which technologies does Flir Belgium Bvba patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 35

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 26

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 23

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 16

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 2

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,206

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Flir Belgium Bvba's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Flir Belgium Bvba's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 53% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #5,206 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Flir Belgium Bvba against CSL Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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