Where does Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois ranks #6,316 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois hold?

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's Innovation Score?

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois has an Innovation Score of 52.4 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 Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois focus on?

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's top technology area is A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois'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 Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's patents?

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's patents average 16.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois

Q: How is the Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois 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 PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 63 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: A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Board ranks #6,316 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 63 technology areas.

#6,316
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6316 · US Corporation #6,316 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,316/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Ambrx
CPC-WIDE A61K · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ambrx, 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
Biofire Defense · near

52
National University… · near

52
Board OF Trustees OF… · this assignee

52
Nuvasive Specialized… · near

52
Rittal & KG · near

52
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-FLAT, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,316 of 50,000; Innovation Score 52.4/100 sits in the top 10% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Ambrx, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois has been granted 53 US utility patents between 2015 and 2024, placing Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois at #6,316 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 63 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES). As a US Corporation, Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Board sits between Ambrx, Inc. (53 patents, rank #6,308) and Beta Bionics, Inc. (53 patents, rank #6,316) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 52.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 27 grants, compared with 26 in the 2015–2019 window, a +4% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois's 16.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 63 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Ambrx

53
BD Kiestra B V

53
Bloomy Lotus

53
Board OF Regents…

53
Bonza Botanicals…

53
Beijing BOE Chata…

53
Bemis Manufacturi…

53
Beta Bionics

53
Board OF Trustees… ◀

53

What this shows Board holds 53 patents at rank #6,312, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Board

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,312 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. 52 Rittal Gmbh & Co. KG 52 National University Corporation Tokyo Medical And Dental University 52 Biofire Defense, Llc 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

MD Elektronik Gmbh 16.3 avg Cameron Health, Inc. 16.3 avg LM WP Patent Holding A/s 16.3 avg ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Llc 16.3 avg

Board'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 50,000 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.

View data table

Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	11.3%
2016	3	5.7%
2017	4	7.5%
2018	7	13.2%
2019	6	11.3%
2020	8	15.1%
2021	7	13.2%
2022	7	13.2%
2023	4	7.5%
2024	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois patent most?

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 16

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 10

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 10

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 6

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 5

G10L - SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING 4

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 4

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 4

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 4

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 4

H10D - INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 4

H04B - TRANSMISSION 4

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 3

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 3

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 3

Top 15 of 63 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,316

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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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