Where does Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. ranks #562 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 Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. hold?

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. holds 802 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 59.3 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters) with 314 patents, ranking #24 of 1,354 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., 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 PatentsView assignee record - 802 granted patents across 124 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: G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optica).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hefei ranks #562 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 802 patents across 124 technology areas.

#562
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R562 · Foreign Corporation #562 · 802 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 802 grants
TOP-DECILE #562/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B/E Aerospace
CPC-WIDE G02F · 124 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B/E Aerospace, Inc. (±1 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 Hefei’s 59.3 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 23.1 pts (39%) Velocity 2.0 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Assistance PUBLIQUE—… · near

59
Covestro · near

59
Hefei BOE Optoelectr… · this assignee

59
Koki Holdings · near

59
NEC Platforms · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hefei's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (top 4% 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 Hefei?

Each dot is one of Hefei’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). Hefei’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hefei's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. received 352 grants versus 437 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 144 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 14. Lead class G02F accounts for 39.2% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: King Faisal University (#558) and Wipro Limited (#566).

Hefei's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. moved from 380 to 116 grants (0.30x 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 #2,993. See the growth leaderboard.

King Faisal Unive…

803
Mandom

803
Rohm and Haas

803
Ut-battelle

803
Hefei BOE Optoele… ◀

802
B/E Aerospace

801
Fortinet

801
Resmed Pty

800
Wipro

794

What this shows Hefei holds 802 patents at rank #562, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hefei

By rank, the assignees closest to #562 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hefei, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…), Hefei ranks #24 of 1,354 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

NEC Platforms, Ltd. 59 Assistance PUBLIQUE—HÔPITAUX DE Paris (APHP) 59 Covestro LLC 59 Koki Holdings Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. 15.2 avg Melexis Technologies NV 15.2 avg Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 15.2 avg TRW Automotive U.S. LLC 15.2 avg

Hefei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	3.0%
2016	68	8.5%
2017	92	11.5%
2018	109	13.6%
2019	144	18.0%
2020	141	17.6%
2021	95	11.8%
2022	76	9.5%
2023	26	3.2%
2024	14	1.7%
2025partial year	13	1.6%

Which technologies does Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. patent most?

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 314

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 239

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 139

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 125

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 96

G11C - Static Stores 95

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 73

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 73

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 31

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 23

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 16

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 14

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

Top 15 of 124 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

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optica), 39.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02F
Ranked #562 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. against King Faisal University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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

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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

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