Where does The Trustees of Boston College rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Trustees of Boston College ranks #5,983 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 Trustees of Boston College hold?

The Trustees of Boston College holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is The Trustees of Boston College's Innovation Score?

The Trustees of Boston College has an Innovation Score of 55.3 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%).

What technology areas does The Trustees of Boston College focus on?

The Trustees of Boston College's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 21 patents, ranking #214 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Trustees of Boston College's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Trustees of Boston College's recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Trustees of Boston College's patents?

The Trustees of Boston College's patents average 16.8 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 Trustees of Boston College 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 Trustees of Boston College

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 56 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #5,983 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 56 technology areas.

#5,983
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.3/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5983 · US Corporation #5,983 · 57 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,983/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Eastern
CPC-WIDE B01J · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Eastern Company (±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 55.3 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 14.0 pts (25%) Velocity 6.2 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Exergyn · near

55
Ferroelectric Memory · near

55
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55
The Trustees of… · this assignee

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Wilcox Industries · near

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 55.3/100 (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 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 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.

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Trustees of Boston College received 23 grants versus 32 in 2015–2019 (-28% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 10 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 3. Lead class B01J accounts for 36.8% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: THE University OF Western Ontario (#5,980) and Universita Degli Studi DI Palermo (#5,988).

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Trustees of Boston College shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

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What this shows The holds 57 patents at rank #5,984, 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 #5,984 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), The ranks #214 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Exergyn, Ltd. 55 Ferroelectric Memory GmbH 55 Wilcox Industries Corp. 55 NIO USA, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Lumentum Japan, Inc. 16.8 avg C.R. Bard, Inc. 16.8 avg Northwestern University 16.8 avg Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC 16.8 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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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The Trustees of Boston College patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	17.5%
2016	9	15.8%
2017	6	10.5%
2018	3	5.3%
2019	4	7.0%
2020	6	10.5%
2021	4	7.0%
2022	3	5.3%
2023	4	7.0%
2024	6	10.5%
2025partial year	2	3.5%

Which technologies does The Trustees of Boston College patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 21

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 18

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 17

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 16

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 5

C07K - Peptides 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

Top 15 of 56 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 Trustees of Boston College's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Trustees of Boston College's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #5,983 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Trustees of Boston College against THE University OF Western Ontario, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.3/100 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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