Where does British Broadcasting Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), British Broadcasting Corporation ranks #10,564 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 British Broadcasting Corporation hold?

British Broadcasting Corporation holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is British Broadcasting Corporation's Innovation Score?

British Broadcasting Corporation 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 British Broadcasting Corporation focus on?

British Broadcasting Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 22 patents, ranking #728 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is British Broadcasting Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

British Broadcasting Corporation's recent grant velocity is -27% 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 British Broadcasting Corporation's patents?

British Broadcasting Corporation's patents average 19.3 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 British Broadcasting Corporation 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

British Broadcasting Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 14 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, British ranks #10,564 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 14 technology areas.

#10,564
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10564 · Foreign Corporation #10,564 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,564/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bear Robotics
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bear Robotics, 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 British’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 11.7 pts (30%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 13.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Action Target · near

38
Aqua Products · near

38
Brightcove · near

38
British Broadcasting · this assignee

38
KNIPEX-Werk C… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows British'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 British?

Each dot is one of British’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). British’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where British's grants concentrate

British Broadcasting Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 75.9% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, British sits between Bear Robotics, Inc. and Calgon Carbon Corporation.

British's three-year grant acceleration

British Broadcasting Corporation shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Bear Robotics

29
Blue Force Gear

29
Bote

29
Brain Tunnelgenix

29
C N R S

29
C3 Nano

29
C4 Therapeutics

29
Calgon Carbon

29
British Broadcast… ◀

29

What this shows British holds 29 patents at rank #10,565, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near British

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,565 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for British, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), British ranks #728 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG 38 Action Target Inc. 38 Brightcove Inc. 38 Aqua Products, Inc. 38

British'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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British Broadcasting Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	13.8%
2016	1	3.4%
2017	1	3.4%
2018	2	6.9%
2019	7	24.1%
2020	3	10.3%
2021	4	13.8%
2022	1	3.4%
2023	3	10.3%
2025partial year	3	10.3%

Which technologies does British Broadcasting Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

H04B - Transmission 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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 1

G11C - Static Stores 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

Top 14 of 14 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

British Broadcasting Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

British Broadcasting Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 75.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #10,564 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare British Broadcasting Corporation against Bear Robotics, Inc., 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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