Where does Buffalo Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Buffalo Inc. ranks #11,951 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 Buffalo Inc. hold?

Buffalo Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Buffalo Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Buffalo Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Buffalo Inc. focus on?

Buffalo Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 14 patents, ranking #2,788 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Buffalo Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +20% 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 Buffalo Inc.'s patents?

Buffalo Inc.'s patents average 16.7 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 Buffalo 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 Foreign Corporation

Buffalo Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Buffalo ranks #11,951 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 9 technology areas.

#11,951
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11951 · Foreign Corporation #11,951 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,951/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baby Jogger
CPC-NARROW G06F · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baby Jogger, 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 Buffalo’s 35.9 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 11.3 pts (31%) Velocity 4.0 pts (11%) Breadth 10.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Piramal Enterprises · near

36
Buffalo · this assignee

36
Agrivida · near

36
Invincea · near

36
Yakima Products · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Buffalo's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Buffalo?

Each dot is one of Buffalo’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). Buffalo’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Buffalo's grants concentrate

Buffalo Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 56% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Buffalo sits between Bedoukian Research, Inc. and BicycleRD Limited.

Buffalo's three-year grant acceleration

Buffalo Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Bedoukian Research

25
Bharat Petroleum

25
Borgwarner Sweden…

25
Brillnics Singapo…

25
Baby Jogger

25
Benvenue Medical

25
Bespoke

25
Bicyclerd

25
Buffalo ◀

25

What this shows Buffalo holds 25 patents at rank #11,938, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Buffalo

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,938 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Buffalo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Buffalo ranks #2,788 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Agrivida, Inc. 36 Invincea, Inc. 36 Yakima Products, Inc. 36 Piramal Enterprises Limited 36

Buffalo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Buffalo Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.0%
2017	2	8.0%
2018	3	12.0%
2019	4	16.0%
2020	4	16.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	4	16.0%
2023	1	4.0%
2024	1	4.0%
2025partial year	3	12.0%

Which technologies does Buffalo Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

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

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Buffalo Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #11,951 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Buffalo Inc. against Bedoukian Research, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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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