Where does NV Bekaert SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NV Bekaert SA ranks #4,211 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 NV Bekaert SA hold?

NV Bekaert SA holds 85 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is NV Bekaert SA's Innovation Score?

NV Bekaert SA has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does NV Bekaert SA focus on?

NV Bekaert SA's top technology area is D07B (Ropes OR Cables IN General) with 24 patents, ranking #5 of 108 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

Is NV Bekaert SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NV Bekaert SA's recent grant velocity is -39% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for NV Bekaert SA's patents?

NV Bekaert SA's patents average 13.7 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 NV Bekaert SA 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

NV Bekaert SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 85 granted patents across 81 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: D07B (Ropes OR Cables IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, NV ranks #4,211 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 85 patents across 81 technology areas.

#4,211
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4211 · Foreign Corporation #4,211 · 85 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 85 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,211/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Levi Strauss &
CPC-WIDE D07B · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Levi Strauss & Co. (±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 NV’s 53.5 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 15.4 pts (29%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Novamont S p A · near

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows NV's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 NV?

Each dot is one of NV’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). NV’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How NV's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, NV Bekaert SA received 30 grants versus 49 in 2015–2019 (-39% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 11 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 4. Lead class D07B accounts for 28.2% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Levi Strauss & Co. (#4,206) and Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. (#4,214).

NV's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, NV Bekaert SA moved from 23 to 17 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows NV holds 85 patents at rank #4,210, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NV

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,210 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D07B (Ropes OR Cables IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NV, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D07B (Ropes OR Cables IN General), NV ranks #5 of 108 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

National University Corporation Kagawa University 54 Inari Medical, Inc. 54 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 54 Novamont S.p.A. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Ember Technologies, Inc. 13.7 avg GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Mobile Security GMBH 13.7 avg Universite Grenoble Alpes 13.7 avg Cooler Master Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg

NV's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% 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.

View data table

NV Bekaert SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	11.8%
2016	10	11.8%
2017	8	9.4%
2018	11	12.9%
2019	10	11.8%
2020	9	10.6%
2021	4	4.7%
2022	8	9.4%
2023	5	5.9%
2024	4	4.7%
2025partial year	6	7.1%

Which technologies does NV Bekaert SA patent most?

D07B - Ropes OR Cables IN General 24

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 13

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 12

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 12

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 10

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 8

D04B - Knitting 8

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 7

C22C - Alloys 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 6

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 6

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 6

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 5

Top 15 of 81 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

NV Bekaert SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NV Bekaert SA's lead technology class is D07B (Ropes OR Cables IN General), 28.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D07B
Ranked #4,211 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NV Bekaert SA against Levi Strauss & Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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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