Where does ADP, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ADP, Inc. ranks #963 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 ADP, Inc. hold?

ADP, Inc. holds 457 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is ADP, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

ADP, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ADP, Inc. focus on?

ADP, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 162 patents, ranking #369 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is ADP, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ADP, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +18% 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 ADP, Inc.'s patents?

ADP, Inc.'s patents average 12.6 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 ADP, 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

ADP, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 457 granted patents across 15 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ADP ranks #963 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 457 patents across 15 technology areas.

#963
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R963 · US Corporation #963 · 457 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 457 grants
TOP-DECILE #963/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fisher Controls…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fisher Controls International LLC (±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 ADP’s 47.4 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 21.2 pts (45%) Velocity 5.0 pts (11%) Breadth 13.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ADP · this assignee

47
Advanced Drainage… · near

47
Andrew Wireless… · near

47
Cirrus Logic… · near

47
Kellogg · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ADP's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 ADP?

Each dot is one of ADP’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). ADP’s own 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where ADP's grants concentrate

ADP, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 35.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (67 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, ADP sits between Cellco Partnership and Invensas LLC.

ADP's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ADP, Inc. moved from 154 to 116 grants (0.75x 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 #1,976. See the growth leaderboard.

Cellco Partnership

459
Sumitomo Electric…

459
Huazhong Universi…

458
Sandvik Intellect…

458
ADP ◀

457
Fisher Controls I…

456
Hella & Kgaa

456
Hanwha Techwin

454
Invensas

454

What this shows ADP holds 457 patents at rank #963, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ADP

By rank, the assignees closest to #963 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ADP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), ADP ranks #369 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH 47 Kellogg Company 47 Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. 47 Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 12.6 avg Nidek Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Caregen Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Inha-industry Partnership Institute 12.6 avg

ADP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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ADP, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	0.7%
2016	32	7.0%
2017	67	14.7%
2018	45	9.8%
2019	44	9.6%
2020	60	13.1%
2021	50	10.9%
2022	39	8.5%
2023	42	9.2%
2024	35	7.7%
2025partial year	40	8.8%

Which technologies does ADP, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 162

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 136

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 71

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 37

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

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 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

ADP, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ADP, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 35.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #963 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ADP, Inc. against Cellco Partnership, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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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