Where does Specialty Conveyor B.v. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Specialty Conveyor B.v. ranks #23,439 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 Specialty Conveyor B.v. hold?

Specialty Conveyor B.v. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s Innovation Score?

Specialty Conveyor B.v. has an Innovation Score of 31.4 out of 100 (top 62% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s patents?

Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s patents average 18.1 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 Specialty Conveyor B.v. 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

Specialty Conveyor B.v.

Q: What technology areas does Specialty Conveyor B.v. focus on?

Specialty Conveyor B.v.'s top technology area is B65G (TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 2 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: B65G (TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Specialty ranks #23,439 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 2 technology areas.

#23,439
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 62%
by Innovation Score (31.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23439 · Foreign Corporation #23,439 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,439/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH SONATYPE
CPC-NARROW B65G · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sonatype, 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
Specialty Conveyor B v · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Specialty's Innovation Score is 31.4/100 (top 62% 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 Specialty's grants concentrate

Specialty Conveyor B.v. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B65G (TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Specialty sits between Sonatype, Inc. and Sphere Fluidics Limited.

Sonatype

12
Souper Products

12
Souriau

12
Spartan Chemical

12
Speech Morphing S…

12
Speed Charge

12
Speedx PTY

12
Sphere Fluidics

12
Specialty Conveyo… ◀

12

What this shows Specialty holds 12 patents at rank #23,380, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Specialty

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,380 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Specialty's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 62% higher than 38% 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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Specialty Conveyor B.v. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2016	3	25.0%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Specialty Conveyor B.v. patent most?

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 12

A61M - DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR 1

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,439

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.4 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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