Where does Brex Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brex Inc. ranks #15,164 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 Brex Inc. hold?

Brex Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Brex Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Brex 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%).

What technology areas does Brex Inc. focus on?

Brex Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 12 patents, ranking #3,141 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

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

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

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

Brex Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Brex 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

Brex Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Brex ranks #15,164 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 8 technology areas.

#15,164
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15164 · US Corporation #15,164 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,164/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Blockchain ASICs
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Blockchain ASICs 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 Brex’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 10.3 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 10.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brex · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brex'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 Brex?

Each dot is one of Brex’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). Brex’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brex's grants concentrate

Brex Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 63.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Brex sits between Blockchain ASICs Inc. and CAM Corp..

Brex's three-year grant acceleration

Brex Inc. shows 9 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.

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What this shows Brex holds 19 patents at rank #15,165, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brex

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,165 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Brex'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 · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Brex Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	3	15.8%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	4	21.1%
2024	3	15.8%
2025partial year	7	36.8%

Which technologies does Brex Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

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 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 8 of 8 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

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

Brex Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 63.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #15,164 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brex Inc. against Blockchain ASICs 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

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.