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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Affirm, Inc. ranks #11,152 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 Affirm, Inc. hold?

Affirm, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Affirm, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Affirm, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Affirm, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Affirm, Inc.'s patents?

Affirm, Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Affirm, 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

Affirm, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Affirm, Inc. focus on?

Affirm, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 17 patents, ranking #762 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Affirm ranks #11,152 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 5 technology areas.

#11,152
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11152 · US Corporation #11,152 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,152/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adaptimmune
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adaptimmune Limited (±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 Affirm’s 50.5 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 11.5 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 7.9 pts (16%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Affirm · this assignee

51
Applied Minds · near

51
Bando Chemical… · near

51
Hollingsworth & Vose · near

51
Wake Forest University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Affirm's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Affirm?

Each dot is one of Affirm’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). Affirm’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Affirm's grants concentrate

Affirm, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 63% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Affirm sits between Assa Abloy Residential Group, Inc. and Ancra International LLC.

Affirm's three-year grant acceleration

Affirm, Inc. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Assa Abloy Reside…

27
Adaptimmune

27
Addepar

27
Advanced Flexible…

27
Akili Interactive…

27
Ameristar Perimet…

27
Ampt

27
Ancra Internation…

27
Affirm ◀

27

What this shows Affirm holds 27 patents at rank #11,161, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Affirm

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,161 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Affirm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Affirm ranks #762 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Wake Forest University 51 Applied Minds, LLC 51 Hollingsworth & Vose Company 51 Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. 51

Affirm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Affirm, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	3.7%
2021	2	7.4%
2022	6	22.2%
2023	7	25.9%
2024	7	25.9%
2025partial year	4	14.8%

Which technologies does Affirm, Inc. patent most?

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 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Affirm, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 63% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #11,152 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Affirm, Inc. against Assa Abloy Residential Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

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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