Where does BCE Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BCE Inc. ranks #3,445 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 BCE Inc. hold?

BCE Inc. holds 107 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is BCE Inc.'s Innovation Score?

BCE Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.9 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BCE Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BCE Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 BCE Inc.'s patents?

BCE Inc.'s patents average 27.6 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 BCE Inc. 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

BCE Inc.

Q: What technology areas does BCE Inc. focus on?

BCE Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 73 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 107 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BCE ranks #3,445 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 107 patents across 26 technology areas.

#3,445
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.9/100): 27.6
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3445 · Foreign Corporation #3,445 · 107 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 107 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,445/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 23andMe
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 23andMe, 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
BCE · this assignee

55
Dassault Aviation · near

55
Global Unichip · near

55
Mujin · near

55
Powerchip Semiconduc… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BCE's Innovation Score is 54.9/100 (top 7% 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 BCE's grants concentrate

BCE Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 68.2% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (18 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, BCE sits between WCM Industries, Inc. and Cylance Inc..

BCE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BCE Inc. moved from 27 to 23 grants (0.85x 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 #1,657. See the growth leaderboard.

WCM Industries

108
23andme

107
Amtran Technology

107
Aurora Labs

107
Bestop

107
Boston Scientific…

107
Costa Del Mar

107
Cylance

107
BCE ◀

107

What this shows BCE holds 107 patents at rank #3,445, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BCE

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,445 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BCE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Dassault Aviation 55 Mujin, Inc. 55 Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 55 Global Unichip Corporation 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (27.6 here).

Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC 27.6 avg Beijing Zhigu RUI TUO Tech Co., Ltd. 27.7 avg Alfred KÄRCHER SE & Co. KG 27.6 avg Hayward Industries, Inc. 27.7 avg

BCE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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BCE Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	15.9%
2016	13	12.1%
2017	18	16.8%
2018	9	8.4%
2019	11	10.3%
2020	9	8.4%
2021	7	6.5%
2022	13	12.1%
2023	6	5.6%
2024	4	3.7%

Which technologies does BCE Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 73

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 29

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 28

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

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 24

H04M - Telephonic Communication 22

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

H04Q - Selecting 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,445

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.9 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

BCE Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BCE Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 68.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,445 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BCE Inc. against WCM Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.