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 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 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%).

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

Q: 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. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 81 technology areas.

#6,116
of 50,000 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 #6,116/50,000
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.

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 Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Boise State University stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,116 of 50,000; Innovation Score 59.6/100 sits in the top 4% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Avogy, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Boise State University has been granted 55 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Boise State University at #6,116 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 81 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in H10N (ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR). As a US Corporation, Boise State University is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Boise sits between Avogy, Inc. (55 patents, rank #6,112) and Chapin Manufacturing, Inc. (55 patents, rank #6,120) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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 32 grants, compared with 19 in the 2015–2019 window, a +68% 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. Boise State University's 17.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 81 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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).

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 50,000 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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,116

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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