Where does BGC Partners, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BGC Partners, Inc. ranks #4,030 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 BGC Partners, Inc. hold?

BGC Partners, Inc. holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is BGC Partners, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

BGC Partners, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.5 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BGC Partners, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BGC Partners, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BGC Partners, Inc.'s patents?

BGC Partners, Inc.'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 BGC Partners, 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 US Corporation

BGC Partners, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does BGC Partners, Inc. focus on?

BGC Partners, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 86 patents, ranking #168 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 5 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BGC ranks #4,030 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 5 technology areas.

#4,030
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.5/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4030 · US Corporation #4,030 · 89 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,030/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B-K Medical APS
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B-K Medical APS (±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 BGC’s 39.5 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 15.5 pts (39%) Velocity 4.5 pts (11%) Breadth 7.9 pts (20%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BGC Partners · this assignee

39
Duraflex Hong Kong · near

39
HP Printing Korea · near

39
Ibis Biosciences · near

39
Landscape Structures · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BGC's Innovation Score is 39.5/100 (top 38% 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 BGC?

Each dot is one of BGC’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). BGC’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where BGC's grants concentrate

BGC Partners, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 96.6% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, BGC sits between Tristar Products, Inc. and Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc..

BGC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BGC Partners, Inc. moved from 44 to 30 grants (0.68x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Tristar Products

90
Versata Developme…

90
Vertiv

90
B-K Medical APS

89
Birkenstock IP

89
Bushnell

89
Carbo Ceramics

89
Collins Engine No…

89
BGC Partners ◀

89

What this shows BGC holds 89 patents at rank #4,030, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BGC

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,030 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BGC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), BGC ranks #168 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Duraflex Hong Kong Limited 39 HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. 39 Ibis Biosciences, Inc. 39 Landscape Structures Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Loon LLC 19.2 avg YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC 19.2 avg Technological Resources PTY Limited 19.2 avg Thermwood Corporation 19.2 avg

BGC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% 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.

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BGC Partners, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.1%
2017	3	3.4%
2018	6	6.7%
2019	18	20.2%
2020	13	14.6%
2021	13	14.6%
2022	8	9.0%
2023	17	19.1%
2024	5	5.6%
2025partial year	5	5.6%

Which technologies does BGC Partners, Inc. patent most?

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 86

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

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

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 5 of 5 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

BGC Partners, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BGC Partners, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 96.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,030 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BGC Partners, Inc. against Tristar Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.5/100 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

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