Where does Boise State University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boise State University ranks #6,116 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 Boise State University hold?

Boise State University holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is Boise State University's Innovation Score?

Boise State University has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Boise State University focus on?

Boise State University's top technology area is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 11 patents, ranking #155 of 891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

Is Boise State University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Boise State University's recent grant velocity is +68% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Boise State University's patents?

Boise State University's patents average 17.6 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 Boise State University 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

Boise State University

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 81 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: H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boise ranks #6,116 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 81 technology areas.

#6,116
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6116 · US Corporation #6,116 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,116/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avogy
CPC-WIDE H10N · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avogy, 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.

How Boise’s 59.6 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 13.9 pts (23%) Velocity 10.2 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Boise State University · this assignee

60
Disco · near

60
Hunter Douglas · near

60
The Charles Machine… · near

60
Liebherr-werk Biberach · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boise's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Boise?

Each dot is one of Boise’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). Boise’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Boise's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Boise State University received 32 grants versus 19 in 2015–2019 (+68% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 8 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 3. Lead class H10N accounts for 20% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Avogy, Inc. (#6,112) and Chapin Manufacturing, Inc. (#6,120).

Boise's three-year grant acceleration

Boise State University shows 23 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.

Avogy

55
BIOMÉRieux

55
Bedrock Automatio…

55
Beijing Eswin Com…

55
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

55
Bugatti Internati…

55
Cambridge Silicon…

55
Chapin Manufactur…

55
Boise State Unive… ◀

55

What this shows Boise holds 55 patents at rank #6,116, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Boise

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,116 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Boise, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices), Boise ranks #155 of 891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

The Charles Machine Works, Inc. 60 Hunter Douglas Inc. 60 Disco Corporation 60 Liebherr-werk Biberach GMBH 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Vibrant Holdings, LLC 17.6 avg Dali Systems Co. Ltd 17.6 avg Sunshine Lake Pharma Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg Globalwafers Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg

Boise's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Boise State University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.1%
2017	5	9.1%
2018	3	5.5%
2019	6	10.9%
2020	5	9.1%
2021	4	7.3%
2022	8	14.5%
2023	7	12.7%
2024	8	14.5%
2025partial year	4	7.3%

Which technologies does Boise State University patent most?

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 6

C07K - Peptides 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

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 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G11C - Static Stores 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

Top 15 of 81 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

Boise State University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Boise State University's lead technology class is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10N
Ranked #6,116 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boise State University against Avogy, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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.