Where does Box, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Box, Inc. ranks #1,600 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 Box, Inc. hold?

Box, Inc. holds 258 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Box, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Box, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Box, Inc. focus on?

Box, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 207 patents, ranking #302 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Box, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Box, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +23% 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 Box, Inc.'s patents?

Box, Inc.'s patents average 21.4 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 Box, 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

Box, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 258 granted patents across 19 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Box ranks #1,600 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 258 patents across 19 technology areas.

#1,600
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 21.4
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1600 · US Corporation #1,600 · 258 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 258 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,600/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CSC Holdings
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CSC Holdings, LLC (±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 Box’s 53.4 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 19.2 pts (36%) Velocity 6.0 pts (11%) Breadth 15.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Box · this assignee

53
Gowin Semiconductor · near

53
Singapore University… · near

53
SiTime · near

53
Yotrio Group · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Box's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Box?

Each dot is one of Box’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). Box’s own 21.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Box's grants concentrate

Box, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 80.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (32 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2015. By volume, Box sits between Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Kantatsu Co., Ltd.

Box's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Box, Inc. moved from 84 to 75 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 #1,505. See the growth leaderboard.

Sony Computer Ent…

259
Thermo Finnigan

259
Unify & KG

259
Workday

259
CSC Holdings

258
GE Healthcare Bio…

258
H Lundbeck A/S

258
Kantatsu

258
Box ◀

258

What this shows Box holds 258 patents at rank #1,600, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Box

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,600 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Box, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Box ranks #302 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

SiTime Corporation 53 Gowin Semiconductor Corporation 53 Singapore University of Technology and Design 53 Yotrio Group Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.4 here).

TiVo Solutions Inc. 21.4 avg ecoATM, LLC 21.4 avg Cirrus Logic, Inc. 21.4 avg Cardiovalve Ltd. 21.4 avg

Box's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Box, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	6.2%
2016	16	6.2%
2017	24	9.3%
2018	32	12.4%
2019	23	8.9%
2020	31	12.0%
2021	30	11.6%
2022	26	10.1%
2023	26	10.1%
2024	23	8.9%
2025partial year	11	4.3%

Which technologies does Box, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 207

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 158

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 67

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 18

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 14

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 3

A47D - Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Box, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Box, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 80.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,600 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Box, Inc. against Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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