Where does Capital One Financial Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Capital One Financial Corporation ranks #4,414 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 Capital One Financial Corporation hold?

Capital One Financial Corporation holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Capital One Financial Corporation's Innovation Score?

Capital One Financial Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.2 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Capital One Financial Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Capital One Financial Corporation's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Capital One Financial Corporation's patents?

Capital One Financial Corporation's patents average 19.7 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.

How is the Capital One Financial Corporation 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

Capital One Financial Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Capital One Financial Corporation focus on?

Capital One Financial Corporation'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 66 patents, ranking #213 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 16 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, Capital ranks #4,414 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,414
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.2/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4414 · US Corporation #4,414 · 80 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,414/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avnera
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avnera Corporation (±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 Capital’s 41.2 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 15.2 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Capital One Financial · this assignee

41
Control Techniques · near

41
Galapagos · near

41
Mersana Therapeutics · near

41
Surpass Industry · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Capital's Innovation Score is 41.2/100 (top 34% 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 Capital?

Each dot is one of Capital’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). Capital’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Capital's grants concentrate

Capital One Financial Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 82.5% 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 2018 (25 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Capital sits between Avnera Corporation and Draka Comteq B.V..

Avnera

80
Blue Cube IP

80
Bayer Materialsci…

80
Callahan Cellular…

80
Coherent

80
Coravin

80
Dupont Safety & C…

80
Draka Comteq B V

80
Capital One Finan… ◀

80

What this shows Capital holds 80 patents at rank #4,414, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Capital

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,414 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Capital, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Capital ranks #213 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Surpass Industry Co., Ltd. 41 Galapagos NV 41 Control Techniques Limited 41 Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

CBS Interactive Inc. 19.7 avg Alderbio Holdings LLC 19.7 avg ASM International N.V. 19.7 avg Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC 19.7 avg

Capital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Capital One Financial Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.3%
2016	15	18.8%
2017	24	30.0%
2018	25	31.3%
2019	5	6.3%
2020	1	1.3%
2025partial year	1	1.3%

Which technologies does Capital One Financial Corporation 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 66

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 26

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

H04B - Transmission 11

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 1

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Capital One Financial Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Capital One Financial Corporation'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,), 82.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,414 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Capital One Financial Corporation against Avnera Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.2/100 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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