Where does The Bartley J. Madden Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Bartley J. Madden Foundation ranks #27,609 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 The Bartley J. Madden Foundation hold?

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2021, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's Innovation Score?

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation has an Innovation Score of 27.6 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's patents?

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's patents average 20.5 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 The Bartley J. Madden Foundation 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

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation

Q: What technology areas does The Bartley J. Madden Foundation focus on?

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's top technology area is 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) with 10 patents, ranking #1,277 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2021. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #27,609 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#27,609
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.6/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27609 · US Corporation #27,609 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,609/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Texas State…
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Texas State University—San Marcos (±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 The’s 27.6 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 8.3 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (44%)

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 27.6/100 (24th percentile 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, The sits between Texas State University—San Marcos and The Cycle Group.

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What this shows The holds 10 patents at rank #27,636, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,636 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Bartley J. Madden Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	20.0%
2019	4	40.0%
2020	3	30.0%
2021	1	10.0%

Which technologies does The Bartley J. Madden Foundation patent most?

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 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 4 of 4 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

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Bartley J. Madden Foundation's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #27,609 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Bartley J. Madden Foundation against Texas State University—San Marcos, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.6/100 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

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