Where does ACV Auctions Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ACV Auctions Inc. ranks #27,979 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 ACV Auctions Inc. hold?

ACV Auctions Inc. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is ACV Auctions Inc.'s Innovation Score?

ACV Auctions Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ACV Auctions Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for ACV Auctions Inc..

What does claim depth mean for ACV Auctions Inc.'s patents?

ACV Auctions Inc.'s patents average 21.0 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 ACV Auctions Inc. 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

ACV Auctions Inc.

Q: What technology areas does ACV Auctions Inc. focus on?

ACV Auctions Inc.'s top technology area is G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 6 patents, ranking #328 of 1,508 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ACV ranks #27,979 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#27,979
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27979 · US Corporation #27,979 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #27,979/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acorn West
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acorn West LLC (±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 ACV’s 52.3 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 8.0 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 11.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ACV Auctions · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ACV's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 ACV?

Each dot is one of ACV’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). ACV’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ACV's grants concentrate

ACV Auctions Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, ACV sits between Acorn West LLC and Adrc. Co. KR.

ACV's three-year grant acceleration

ACV Auctions Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Acorn West

9
ACS Industries

9
Actega DS

9
Actiw OY

9
ADA

9
Adare Pharmaceuti…

9
Adasa

9
Adrc KR

9
ACV Auctions ◀

9

What this shows ACV holds 9 patents at rank #27,971, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ACV

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,971 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (Time OR Attendance Registers)

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

ACV's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ACV Auctions Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	11.1%
2023	3	33.3%
2024	3	33.3%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does ACV Auctions Inc. patent most?

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

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 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

Top 11 of 11 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

ACV Auctions Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ACV Auctions Inc.'s lead technology class is G07C (Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FO), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07C
Ranked #27,979 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ACV Auctions Inc. against Acorn West LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.