Where does American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. ranks #687 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.9 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +24% 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 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s patents?

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Q: How many patents does American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. hold?

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. holds 655 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. focus on?

American Express Travel Related Services Company, 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 428 patents, ranking #39 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the American Express Travel Related Services Company, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 655 granted patents across 28 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: 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, American ranks #687 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 655 patents across 28 technology areas.

#687
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.9/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R687 · US Corporation #687 · 655 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 655 grants
TOP-DECILE #687/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TS Tech
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TS Tech Co., 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.

How American’s 59.9 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 22.4 pts (37%) Velocity 7.5 pts (13%) Breadth 18.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Express… · this assignee

60
Analog Devices… · near

60
Temple University-Of… · near

60
Voyetra Turtle Beach · near

60
Ordos Yuansheng… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows American's Innovation Score is 59.9/100 (top 4% 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 American?

Each dot is one of American’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). American’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where American's grants concentrate

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 65.3% 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 2024 (75 grants) versus a trough of 30 in 2015. By volume, American sits between Tyco Fire & Security GMBH and Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO.

American's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. moved from 182 to 206 grants (1.13x 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 #900. See the growth leaderboard.

Tyco Fire & Secur…

659
Borealis

657
Inventec

656
Immersion

656
TS Tech

655
American Express… ◀

655
Roche Diagnostics…

654
psemi

654
Nederlandse Organ…

653

What this shows American holds 655 patents at rank #687, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near American

By rank, the assignees closest to #687 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for American, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), American ranks #39 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company 60 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. 60 Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education 60 Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation 18.7 avg Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. 18.7 avg Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc. 18.7 avg Eyelock LLC 18.7 avg

American's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	4.6%
2016	41	6.3%
2017	71	10.8%
2018	57	8.7%
2019	63	9.6%
2020	63	9.6%
2021	56	8.5%
2022	60	9.2%
2023	71	10.8%
2024	75	11.5%
2025partial year	68	10.4%

Which technologies does American Express Travel Related Services Company, 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 428

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 308

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 225

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 89

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 56

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 34

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 19

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 6

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 4

Top 15 of 28 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

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

American Express Travel Related Services Company, 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,), 65.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #687 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. against Tyco Fire & Security GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.9/100 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

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