Where does Bank of America Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bank of America Corporation ranks #71 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 Bank of America Corporation hold?

Bank of America Corporation holds 4,988 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Bank of America Corporation's Innovation Score?

Bank of America Corporation has an Innovation Score of 74.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bank of America Corporation focus on?

Bank of America Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 2,979 patents, ranking #23 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bank of America Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bank of America Corporation's recent grant velocity is +87% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bank of America Corporation's patents?

Bank of America Corporation's patents average 18.0 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 Bank of America Corporation 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 US Corporation

Bank of America Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,988 granted patents across 80 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bank ranks #71 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,988 patents across 80 technology areas.

#71
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.6/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R71 · US Corporation #71 · 4,988 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 5.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #71/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Tokyo Electron
CPC-WIDE G06F · 80 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tokyo Electron Limited (±73 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 Bank’s 74.6 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 29.4 pts (39%) Velocity 9.4 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bank of America · this assignee

75
Salesforce · near

75
King Faisal University · near

75
Blueowl · near

75
Nicoventures Trading · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bank's Innovation Score is 74.6/100 (top 1% 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 Bank?

Each dot is one of Bank’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). Bank’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Bank's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bank of America Corporation received 2,894 grants versus 1,544 in 2015–2019 (+87% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 687 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 231. Lead class G06F accounts for 59.7% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (#67) and Olympus Corporation (#75).

Bank's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bank of America Corporation moved from 1,371 to 1,939 grants (1.41x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #510. See the growth leaderboard.

Kyocera Document…

5,491
Japan Display

5,401
Hewlett Packard E…

5,165
Tokyo Electron

5,061
Bank of America ◀

4,988
Vmware

4,914
Facebook

4,875
Verizon Patent an…

4,862
Olympus

4,844

What this shows Bank holds 4,988 patents at rank #71, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bank

By rank, the assignees closest to #71 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bank, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Bank ranks #23 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (75 here).

Salesforce, Inc. 75 King Faisal University 75 Blueowl, LLC 75 Nicoventures Trading Limited 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. 18.0 avg Holtec International 18.0 avg CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH 18.0 avg Storagecraft Technology Corporation 18.0 avg

Bank's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

75 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Bank of America Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	231	4.6%
2016	287	5.8%
2017	290	5.8%
2018	320	6.4%
2019	416	8.3%
2020	443	8.9%
2021	512	10.3%
2022	609	12.2%
2023	643	12.9%
2024	687	13.8%
2025partial year	550	11.0%

Which technologies does Bank of America Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2,979

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2,259

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1,599

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 877

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 514

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 317

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 299

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 163

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 133

H04M - Telephonic Communication 123

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 119

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 98

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 61

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 40

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 31

Top 15 of 80 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

Bank of America Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bank of America Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 59.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #71 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bank of America Corporation against Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.6/100 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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