Where does Bread Financial Payments, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bread Financial Payments, Inc. ranks #17,512 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 Bread Financial Payments, Inc. hold?

Bread Financial Payments, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Bread Financial Payments, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bread Financial Payments, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.0 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%).

Is Bread Financial Payments, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Bread Financial Payments, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Bread Financial Payments, Inc.'s patents?

Bread Financial Payments, Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Bread Financial Payments, 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

Bread Financial Payments, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bread Financial Payments, Inc. focus on?

Bread Financial Payments, 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 14 patents, ranking #913 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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, Bread ranks #17,512 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 6 technology areas.

#17,512
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17512 · US Corporation #17,512 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,512/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bosch Security Systems
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bosch Security Systems, Inc. (±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 Bread’s 47.0 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 9.8 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 8.7 pts (18%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bread Financial… · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bread's Innovation Score is 47.0/100 (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 Bread?

Each dot is one of Bread’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). Bread’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bread's grants concentrate

Bread Financial Payments, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 87.5% 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 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Bread sits between Bosch Security Systems, Inc. and Bujeon Co., Ltd..

Bread's three-year grant acceleration

Bread Financial Payments, Inc. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Bosch Security Sy…

16
BOW River

16
Bowtech

16
Brahm Holdings

16
Brivaplast S R L

16
Brunson Instrument

16
Bruss Sealing Sys…

16
Bujeon

16
Bread Financial P… ◀

16

What this shows Bread holds 16 patents at rank #17,495, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bread

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,495 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Bread'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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bread Financial Payments, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	6.3%
2023	8	50.0%
2024	5	31.3%
2025partial year	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Bread Financial Payments, 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 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Bread Financial Payments, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bread Financial Payments, 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,), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #17,512 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bread Financial Payments, Inc. against Bosch Security Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.0/100 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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