Where does BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. ranks #16 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 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. hold?

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. holds 18,263 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 356 technology areas.

What is BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 74.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patents?

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.8 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 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 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

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. focus on?

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information) with 5,413 patents. Grants appear in 356 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18,263 granted patents across 356 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: G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, BOE ranks #16 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18,263 patents across 356 technology areas.

#16
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.3/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16 · Foreign Corporation #16 · 18,263 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 18K grants
TOP-DECILE #16/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Ford Global
CPC-BROAD G09G · 356 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (±264 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
Sony Semiconductor… · near

74
Cisco Technology · near

74
BOE Technology Group · this assignee

74
Argo AI · near

74
Rovi Guides · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BOE's Innovation Score is 74.3/100 (top 1% 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.

How BOE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. received 10,031 grants versus 6,421 in 2015–2019 (+56% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 2,208 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 291. Lead class G09G accounts for 29.6% of the portfolio across 356 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (#12) and Hyundai Motor Company (#20).

BOE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. moved from 6,473 to 5,740 grants (0.89x 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 #1,526. See the growth leaderboard.

Toyota Jidosha

21,526
Sony Group

20,593
Amazon

20,125
Ford Global

18,527
BOE Technology Gr… ◀

18,263
Telefonaktiebolag…

15,598
Micron Technology

15,200
Mitsubishi Electr…

15,053
Hyundai Motor

15,033

What this shows BOE holds 18,263 patents at rank #16, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BOE

By rank, the assignees closest to #16 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Cisco Technology, Inc. 74 Rovi Guides, Inc. 74 Argo AI, LLC 74 Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Essilor International 15.8 avg Sunpower Corporation 15.8 avg Dow Corning Corporation 15.8 avg Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp. 15.8 avg

BOE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	291	1.6%
2016	885	4.8%
2017	1,426	7.8%
2018	1,637	9.0%
2019	2,182	11.9%
2020	2,153	11.8%
2021	2,138	11.7%
2022	2,208	12.1%
2023	1,647	9.0%
2024	1,885	10.3%
2025partial year	1,811	9.9%

Which technologies does BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. patent most?

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 5,413

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 4,930

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 4,700

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3,455

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2,873

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1,899

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1,578

G11C - Static Stores 989

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 849

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 830

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 653

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 621

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 606

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 577

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 439

Top 15 of 356 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#16

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

74.3 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

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information), 29.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09G
Ranked #16 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. against Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.3/100 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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