Where does Brightcove Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brightcove Inc. ranks #9,210 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 Brightcove Inc. hold?

Brightcove Inc. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Brightcove Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Brightcove Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brightcove Inc. focus on?

Brightcove Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 26 patents, ranking #635 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

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

Brightcove Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Brightcove Inc.'s patents?

Brightcove Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Brightcove 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

Brightcove Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 5 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brightcove ranks #9,210 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 5 technology areas.

#9,210
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9210 · US Corporation #9,210 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,210/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Board of Trustees…
CPC-NARROW H04N · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (±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 Brightcove’s 38.5 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 12.3 pts (32%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 7.9 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Action Target · near

38
Aqua Products · near

38
Brightcove · this assignee

38
British Broadcasting · near

38
KNIPEX-Werk C… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brightcove's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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 Brightcove?

Each dot is one of Brightcove’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). Brightcove’s own 19.4 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.

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

Where Brightcove's grants concentrate

Brightcove Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Brightcove sits between Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Callwave Communications, LLC.

Brightcove's three-year grant acceleration

Brightcove Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Board of Trustees…

34
Boomi

34
Bostongene

34
Bourgault Industr…

34
Buckingham Manufa…

34
Buffalo Filter

34
Caffitaly System…

34
Callwave Communic…

34
Brightcove ◀

34

What this shows Brightcove holds 34 patents at rank #9,210, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brightcove

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,210 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brightcove, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Brightcove ranks #635 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Aqua Products, Inc. 38 KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG 38 British Broadcasting Corporation 38 Action Target Inc. 38

Brightcove's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 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.

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Brightcove Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.8%
2016	5	14.7%
2017	4	11.8%
2018	3	8.8%
2019	4	11.8%
2021	5	14.7%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	4	11.8%
2024	2	5.9%

Which technologies does Brightcove Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 26

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

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 6

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Brightcove Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #9,210 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brightcove Inc. against Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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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