Where does BI Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BI Incorporated ranks #6,989 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 BI Incorporated hold?

BI Incorporated holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is BI Incorporated's Innovation Score?

BI Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 50.2 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does BI Incorporated focus on?

BI Incorporated's top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 32 patents, ranking #55 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is BI Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BI Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +42% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for BI Incorporated's patents?

BI Incorporated's patents average 21.9 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 BI Incorporated 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

BI Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BI ranks #6,989 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 22 technology areas.

#6,989
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.2/100): 21.9
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6989 · US Corporation #6,989 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #6,989/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ascion
CPC-FOCUS G08B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ascion, LLC (±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 BI’s 50.2 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 13.4 pts (27%) Velocity 7.1 pts (14%) Breadth 16.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abloy OY · near

50
Anello Photonics · near

50
Beijing Funate… · near

50
BI Incorporated · this assignee

50
Sanofi Pasteur · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BI's Innovation Score is 50.2/100 (top 13% 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 BI?

Each dot is one of BI’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). BI’s own 21.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where BI's grants concentrate

BI Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 68.1% of grants classified under G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, BI sits between Avidity Biosciences, Inc. and CareView Communications, Inc..

BI's three-year grant acceleration

BI Incorporated shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Avidity Bioscienc…

47
Ascion

47
B Braun Medical

47
Beijing BOE Multi…

47
Brp-rotax & KG

47
Botrista

47
Chunghwa Precisio…

47
Careview Communic…

47
BI Incorporated ◀

47

What this shows BI holds 47 patents at rank #6,989, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BI

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,989 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems), BI ranks #55 of 2,091 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Beijing Funate Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. 50 Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. 50 Abloy OY 50 Anello Photonics, Inc. 50

BI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

BI Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	12.8%
2017	4	8.5%
2018	5	10.6%
2019	4	8.5%
2020	5	10.6%
2021	6	12.8%
2022	6	12.8%
2023	7	14.9%
2024	3	6.4%
2025partial year	1	2.1%

Which technologies does BI Incorporated patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 32

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

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 16

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 12

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 10

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 6

H04Q - Selecting 6

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 6

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 6

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

BI Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BI Incorporated's lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 68.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #6,989 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BI Incorporated against Avidity Biosciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.2/100 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.