Where does UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux ranks #2,116 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 UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux hold?

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux holds 187 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 137 technology areas.

What is UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's Innovation Score?

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux has an Innovation Score of 57.4 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's recent grant velocity is +36% 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 UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's patents?

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's patents average 13.6 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 UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux 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 Foreign Corporation

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux

Q: What technology areas does UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux focus on?

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 45 patents. Grants appear in 137 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 187 granted patents across 137 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, Université ranks #2,116 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 187 patents across 137 technology areas.

#2,116
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.4/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2116 · Foreign Corporation #2,116 · 187 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 187 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,116/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lumus
CPC-WIDE A61K · 137 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lumus Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Research Foundation… · near

57
UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux · this assignee

57
UNIVERSITÉ DE Lille · near

57
University of Hong… · near

57
Gilead Sciences · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Université's Innovation Score is 57.4/100 (top 5% 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.

How Université's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux received 102 grants versus 75 in 2015–2019 (+36% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 10. Lead class A61K accounts for 24.1% of the portfolio across 137 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lumus Ltd. (#2,112) and International Paper Company (#2,120).

Université's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux moved from 64 to 59 grants (0.92x 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 #1,408. See the growth leaderboard.

Lumus

187
Sears Brands L L C

187
Sichuan University

187
Total

187
UniversitÉ DE Bor… ◀

187
Avary Holding (Sh…

186
Barco

186
GE Lighting Solut…

186
International Pap…

186

What this shows UNIVERSITÉ holds 187 patents at rank #2,116, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UNIVERSITÉ

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,116 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UNIVERSITÉ, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

University of Hong Kong 57 Research Foundation OF THE City University OF NEW York 57 UNIVERSITÉ DE Lille 57 Gilead Sciences, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

Universite De Montpellier 13.6 avg Bull SAS 13.6 avg Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) 13.6 avg E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company 13.6 avg

Université's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	5.3%
2016	10	5.3%
2017	13	7.0%
2018	21	11.2%
2019	21	11.2%
2020	17	9.1%
2021	26	13.9%
2022	17	9.1%
2023	20	10.7%
2024	22	11.8%
2025partial year	10	5.3%

Which technologies does UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 45

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 34

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 24

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 18

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 16

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 13

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 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 12

C07K - Peptides 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

Top 15 of 137 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,116

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 24.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #2,116 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux against Lumus Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.4/100 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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