Where does Barclays Services Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Barclays Services Limited ranks #39,024 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 Barclays Services Limited hold?

Barclays Services Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2019, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Barclays Services Limited's Innovation Score?

Barclays Services Limited has an Innovation Score of 24.5 out of 100 (15th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Barclays Services Limited focus on?

Barclays Services Limited's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 5 patents, ranking #4,044 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Barclays Services Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Barclays Services Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Barclays Services Limited's patents?

Barclays Services Limited's patents average 16.5 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 Barclays Services Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Barclays Services Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2019. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Barclays ranks #39,024 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#39,024
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 15th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39024 · Foreign Corporation #39,024 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,024/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Beverage CAN…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Beverage CAN South America S.A. (±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 Barclays’s 24.5 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 6.7 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.9 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Barclays Services · this assignee

25
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Barclays's Innovation Score is 24.5/100 (15th percentile 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 Barclays?

Each dot is one of Barclays’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). Barclays’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Barclays's grants concentrate

Barclays Services Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). By volume, Barclays sits between Ball Beverage CAN South America S.A. and Basf Toda Battery Materials LLC.

Ball Beverage CAN…

6
BAM

6
BAM Bundesanstalt…

6
Bandgrip

6
Barton Group

6
Basf Construction…

6
Basf South East A…

6
Basf Toda Battery…

6
Barclays Services ◀

6

What this shows Barclays holds 6 patents at rank #39,019, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Barclays

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,019 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Barclays's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 15th percentile higher than 15% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Barclays Services Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	6	100.0%

Which technologies does Barclays Services Limited patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

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 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 2

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

Barclays Services Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Barclays Services Limited's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #39,024 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Barclays Services Limited against Ball Beverage CAN South America S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.5/100 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

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.