Where does South Dakota Board OF Regents rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), South Dakota Board OF Regents ranks #4,359 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 South Dakota Board OF Regents hold?

South Dakota Board OF Regents holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is South Dakota Board OF Regents's Innovation Score?

South Dakota Board OF Regents has an Innovation Score of 55.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is South Dakota Board OF Regents's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

South Dakota Board OF Regents's recent grant velocity is +19% 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 South Dakota Board OF Regents's patents?

South Dakota Board OF Regents's patents average 16.1 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 South Dakota Board OF Regents 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

South Dakota Board OF Regents

Q: What technology areas does South Dakota Board OF Regents focus on?

South Dakota Board OF Regents's top technology area is B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures) with 17 patents, ranking #144 of 1,598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 85 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: B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, South ranks #4,359 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 85 technology areas.

#4,359
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.7/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4359 · US Corporation #4,359 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,359/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Reckitt Benckiser
CPC-WIDE B82Y · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Reckitt Benckiser 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 South’s 55.7 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 15.3 pts (27%) Velocity 5.8 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caterpillar Sarl · near

56
Norton (Waterford) · near

56
Rigetti & · near

56
South Dakota Board… · this assignee

56
THE Arizona Board… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows South's Innovation Score is 55.7/100 (top 7% 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 South?

Each dot is one of South’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). South’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How South's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, South Dakota Board OF Regents received 43 grants versus 36 in 2015–2019 (+19% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class B82Y accounts for 20.7% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Reckitt Benckiser LLC (#4,352) and Ultralogic 6G, LLC (#4,360).

South's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, South Dakota Board OF Regents moved from 31 to 27 grants (0.87x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Reckitt Benckiser

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Research Developm…

82
Rheinmetall Waffe…

82
Rush University M…

82
Suteng Innovation…

82
Skybell

82
Stabilus

82
Ultralogic 6G

82
South Dakota Boar… ◀

82

What this shows South holds 82 patents at rank #4,356, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near South

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,356 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF Nanostructures)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for South, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF Nanostructures), South ranks #144 of 1,598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Norton (Waterford) Limited 56 Rigetti & Co, LLC 56 Caterpillar Sarl 56 THE Arizona Board OF Regents 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Biamp Systems, LLC 16.1 avg GlobalFoundries Inc. 16.1 avg Totalenergies Onetech 16.1 avg Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. 16.1 avg

South's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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South Dakota Board OF Regents patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.7%
2016	5	6.1%
2017	5	6.1%
2018	8	9.8%
2019	15	18.3%
2020	3	3.7%
2021	13	15.9%
2022	10	12.2%
2023	10	12.2%
2024	7	8.5%
2025partial year	3	3.7%

Which technologies does South Dakota Board OF Regents patent most?

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 17

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 16

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 13

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 11

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 9

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 6

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 5

Top 15 of 85 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

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South Dakota Board OF Regents's lead technology class is B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures), 20.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B82Y
Ranked #4,359 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare South Dakota Board OF Regents against Reckitt Benckiser LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.7/100 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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