Where does Boa Technology Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boa Technology Inc. ranks #3,392 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 Boa Technology Inc. hold?

Boa Technology Inc. holds 109 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Boa Technology Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Boa Technology Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Boa Technology Inc. focus on?

Boa Technology Inc.'s top technology area is A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General) with 79 patents, ranking #2 of 113 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

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

Boa Technology Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +4% 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 Boa Technology Inc.'s patents?

Boa Technology Inc.'s patents average 16.1 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 Boa Technology 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

Boa Technology Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 109 granted patents across 29 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: A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boa ranks #3,392 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 109 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,392
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3392 · US Corporation #3,392 · 109 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 109 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,392/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arcam AB
CPC-FOCUS A43C · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arcam AB (±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 Boa’s 52.3 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 16.2 pts (31%) Velocity 7.4 pts (14%) Breadth 19.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dayco IP Holdings · near

52
Nifco Korea · near

52
Boa Technology · this assignee

52
Crompton Technology… · near

52
Kureha · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boa's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Boa?

Each dot is one of Boa’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). Boa’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Boa's grants concentrate

Boa Technology Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 72.5% of grants classified under A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (11 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Boa sits between Arcam AB and Faurecia Interior Systems, Inc..

Boa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Boa Technology Inc. moved from 28 to 31 grants (1.11x 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 #945. See the growth leaderboard.

Arcam AB

109
Aspire North Amer…

109
Bitzer Kühlmaschi…

109
BL

109
Cybersonics

109
Decathlon

109
Elevance Renewabl…

109
Faurecia Interior…

109
Boa Technology ◀

109

What this shows Boa holds 109 patents at rank #3,392, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Boa

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,392 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF Footwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Boa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF Footwear), Boa ranks #2 of 113 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Kureha Corporation 52 Crompton Technology Group, Ltd. 52 Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 52 Nifco Korea Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Agora Lab, Inc. 16.1 avg Liberty Mutual Insurance Company 16.1 avg Orthosoft ULC 16.1 avg Faro Technologies, Inc. 16.1 avg

Boa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Boa Technology Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.5%
2016	11	10.1%
2017	11	10.1%
2018	11	10.1%
2019	9	8.3%
2020	11	10.1%
2021	8	7.3%
2022	11	10.1%
2023	10	9.2%
2024	10	9.2%
2025partial year	11	10.1%

Which technologies does Boa Technology Inc. patent most?

A43C - Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General 79

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 50

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 35

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 30

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 16

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 14

A41F - Garment FASTENINGS; Suspenders 11

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 8

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 8

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 8

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 6

A63C - SKATES; SKIS; Roller SKATES; Design OR Layout OF Courts, Rinks OR THE Like 6

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Boa Technology Inc.'s lead technology class is A43C (Fastenings OR Attachments OF FOOTWEAR; Laces IN General), 72.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A43C
Ranked #3,392 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boa Technology Inc. against Arcam AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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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