Where does Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC ranks #7,526 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 Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC hold?

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's Innovation Score?

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.0 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC focus on?

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 43 patents, ranking #1,097 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's recent grant velocity is -66% 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 Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's patents?

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's patents average 19.2 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 Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC 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

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Barnes ranks #7,526 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 7 technology areas.

#7,526
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.0/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7526 · US Corporation #7,526 · 43 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,526/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Anumana
CPC-NARROW G06F · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Anumana, 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.

How Barnes’s 35.0 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 13.1 pts (37%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 9.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acbel Polytech · near

35
Asian Power Devices · near

35
Barnes & Noble… · this assignee

35
Lipoxen · near

35
Toshiba Hokuto · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Barnes's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (top 50% 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 Barnes?

Each dot is one of Barnes’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). Barnes’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Barnes's grants concentrate

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Barnes sits between Anumana, Inc. and Boston Medical Center Corporation.

Barnes's three-year grant acceleration

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Anumana

43
Aquesys

43
B R A H M S

43
BAE Systems Bofor…

43
BHS Corrugated Ma…

43
Blue Goji

43
Bongiovi Acoustic

43
Boston Medical Ce…

43
Barnes & Noble Co… ◀

43

What this shows Barnes holds 43 patents at rank #7,525, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Barnes

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,525 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Barnes, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Barnes ranks #1,097 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Toshiba Hokuto Electronics Corporation 35 Lipoxen Technologies Limited 35 Asian Power Devices Inc. 35 Acbel Polytech Inc. 35

Barnes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	18.6%
2016	9	20.9%
2017	9	20.9%
2018	3	7.0%
2019	3	7.0%
2020	3	7.0%
2021	6	14.0%
2022	1	2.3%
2023	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 43

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 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

H04B - Transmission 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #7,526 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC against Anumana, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.0/100 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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