Software Bill of Materials Patents: Top Companies & Trends 2026
Software Bill of Materials Patents: Who Is Filing and Where the Field Is Headed
Filing growth of +500% from 3 records in 2021 to 18 in 2024, the peak year to date. Annual filings moved from 4 in 2017 to a peak of 18 in 2024, with the sharpest acceleration between 2021 (3 records) and 2024 (+500%). Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures shown are still filling in and should not be read as a slowdown.
- 1VERACODE INC12
- 2BINARLY INC10
- 3TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD8
- 4SAP SE7
- 5SECZONE TECH CO LTD6
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Common questions about Software Bill of Materials patents
How many patents exist for Software Bill of Materials technology?
The dataset covers 94 published records filed between 2015 and the 2026-07-31 cut-off, matched against a search string built around software composition analysis, open source component identification and related metadata such as transitive dependencies, package identifiers and license data. Filing activity was low before 2021 and accelerated sharply afterward, peaking at 18 records in 2024. Because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 counts shown in any trend chart will continue to rise as more applications publish.
Who are the leading patent filers in Software Bill of Materials?
A ranked list of 37 companies covers the full dataset, spanning security vendors, enterprise software firms and cloud platform operators. The top-ranked assignee holds 12 of the 94 records, with the top 5 assignees combined holding 45.7% of all records and the top 10 holding 68.1%. That is a moderate concentration — enough to show clear leaders, but with a long tail of companies holding only a handful of filings each, so the field remains open to new entrants.
Is the Software Bill of Materials patent field growing or slowing down?
It is growing. Annual filings rose from 3 records in 2021 to 18 in 2024, a +500% increase over that three-year span, and 2024 is the most recent year that can be treated as a complete data point. Later years in any chart will look lower purely because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, not because filing activity has actually declined, so those final one or two years should not be read as a slowdown.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Software Bill of Materials covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.