Where does Trustees OF Boston University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trustees OF Boston University ranks #1,189 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 Trustees OF Boston University hold?

Trustees OF Boston University holds 358 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 119 technology areas.

What is Trustees OF Boston University's Innovation Score?

Trustees OF Boston University has an Innovation Score of 62.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trustees OF Boston University focus on?

Trustees OF Boston University's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 101 patents, ranking #195 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 119 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trustees OF Boston University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trustees OF Boston University's recent grant velocity is +65% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Trustees OF Boston University's patents?

Trustees OF Boston University's patents average 18.3 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 Trustees OF Boston University 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

Trustees OF Boston University

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 358 granted patents across 119 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trustees ranks #1,189 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 358 patents across 119 technology areas.

#1,189
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1189 · US Corporation #1,189 · 358 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 358 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,189/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Denka
CPC-WIDE A61K · 119 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Denka Company Limited (±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 Trustees’s 62.5 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 20.3 pts (32%) Velocity 6.2 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Helicopters · near

63
Dexterity · near

63
Ofinno · near

63
Trustees OF Boston… · this assignee

63
Shanghai Tianma Micro- · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trustees's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (top 2% 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 Trustees?

Each dot is one of Trustees’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). Trustees’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Trustees's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Trustees OF Boston University received 203 grants versus 123 in 2015–2019 (+65% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 53 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 15. Lead class A61K accounts for 28.2% of the portfolio across 119 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (#1,185) and Shiseido Company, Limited (#1,193).

Trustees's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Trustees OF Boston University moved from 123 to 114 grants (0.93x 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 #1,393. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Geo…

360
Denka

359
Institute FOR Inf…

359
South China Unive…

359
Trustees OF Bosto… ◀

358
Valeo Systemes d'…

357
Beijing Dajia Int…

356
Beijing Lenovo So…

356
Shiseido

356

What this shows Trustees holds 358 patents at rank #1,189, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trustees

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,189 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trustees, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Trustees ranks #195 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Airbus Helicopters 63 Ofinno, LLC 63 Dexterity, Inc. 63 Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Sensormatic Electronics, LLC 18.3 avg Molecular Devices, LLC 18.3 avg Florida Power & Light Company 18.3 avg Silicon Graphics International Corp. 18.3 avg

Trustees's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Trustees OF Boston University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	5.9%
2016	15	4.2%
2017	27	7.5%
2018	26	7.3%
2019	34	9.5%
2020	53	14.8%
2021	36	10.1%
2022	48	13.4%
2023	33	9.2%
2024	33	9.2%
2025partial year	32	8.9%

Which technologies does Trustees OF Boston University patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 101

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 96

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 83

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 70

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 57

C07K - Peptides 51

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 39

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 35

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 23

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 22

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 21

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 14

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

Top 15 of 119 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

Trustees OF Boston University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trustees OF Boston University's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 28.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,189 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trustees OF Boston University against University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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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