Where does Business Objects Software Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Business Objects Software Ltd. ranks #1,791 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 Business Objects Software Ltd. hold?

Business Objects Software Ltd. holds 227 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Business Objects Software Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Business Objects Software Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Business Objects Software Ltd. focus on?

Business Objects Software Ltd.'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 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Business Objects Software Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Business Objects Software Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Business Objects Software Ltd.'s patents?

Business Objects Software Ltd.'s patents average 17.9 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 Business Objects Software Ltd. 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

Business Objects Software Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 227 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Business ranks #1,791 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 227 patents across 14 technology areas.

#1,791
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1791 · Foreign Corporation #1,791 · 227 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 227 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,791/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ascensia Diabetes…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (±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 Business’s 48.8 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 18.8 pts (38%) Velocity 6.1 pts (12%) Breadth 13.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Business Objects… · this assignee

49
Industry-academia… · near

49
Soken · near

49
Twist Bioscience · near

49
University of Vienna · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Business's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Business?

Each dot is one of Business’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). Business’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Business's grants concentrate

Business Objects Software Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 91.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (35 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2020. By volume, Business sits between Tachi-s Co., Ltd. and General Motors LLC.

Business's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Business Objects Software Ltd. moved from 57 to 52 grants (0.91x 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 #1,439. See the growth leaderboard.

Tachi-s

228
Ascensia Diabetes…

227
Axon Enterprise

227
Bmic

227
Exedy

227
Flooring Industie…

227
Grammer

227
General Motors

227
Business Objects… ◀

227

What this shows Business holds 227 patents at rank #1,791, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Business

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,791 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Soken, Inc. 49 Industry-academia Cooperation Group OF Sejong University 49 University of Vienna 49 Twist Bioscience Corporation 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Magna Closures Inc. 17.9 avg THE UAB Research Foundation 17.9 avg Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 17.9 avg Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. 17.9 avg

Business's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Business Objects Software Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	15.4%
2016	24	10.6%
2017	27	11.9%
2018	27	11.9%
2019	28	12.3%
2020	8	3.5%
2021	21	9.3%
2022	12	5.3%
2023	28	12.3%
2024	12	5.3%
2025partial year	5	2.2%

Which technologies does Business Objects Software Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 207

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 34

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 25

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 19

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

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 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 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

Business Objects Software Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Business Objects Software Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 91.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,791 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Business Objects Software Ltd. against Tachi-s Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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.

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.