Where does Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ranks #3,471 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 Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. hold?

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. holds 106 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. focus on?

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 50 patents, ranking #974 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s patents?

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s patents average 16.4 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 Charles Schwab & Co., 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

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 106 granted patents across 12 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Charles ranks #3,471 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 106 patents across 12 technology areas.

#3,471
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3471 · US Corporation #3,471 · 106 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 106 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,471/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atheer
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atheer, 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 Charles’s 56.0 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 16.1 pts (29%) Velocity 17.8 pts (32%) Breadth 12.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Charles Schwab & · this assignee

56
Honeycomb Battery · near

56
Razer (Asia-Pacific)… · near

56
ResMed Sensor · near

56
Velocys · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Charles's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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 Charles?

Each dot is one of Charles’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). Charles’s own 16.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Charles's grants concentrate

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 47.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (29 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Charles sits between Atheer, Inc. and Fujifilm Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc..

Charles's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. moved from 21 to 56 grants (2.67x 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 #105. See the growth leaderboard.

Atheer

106
Brookhaven Scienc…

106
Chongqing Univers…

106
Convatec

106
Colorado School o…

106
FCI USA

106
Festool

106
Fujifilm Material…

106
Charles Schwab & ◀

106

What this shows Charles holds 106 patents at rank #3,473, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Charles

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,473 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Charles, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Charles ranks #974 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Honeycomb Battery Company 56 ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited 56 Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. 56 Velocys Technologies Ltd 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific PTE. Limited 16.4 avg THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia 16.4 avg H. Lundbeck A/S 16.4 avg Plexxikon Inc. 16.4 avg

Charles's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.8%
2016	1	0.9%
2017	4	3.8%
2018	6	5.7%
2019	7	6.6%
2020	8	7.5%
2021	6	5.7%
2022	9	8.5%
2023	18	17.0%
2024	29	27.4%
2025partial year	15	14.2%

Which technologies does Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 50

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 50

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 34

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

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

Top 12 of 12 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

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 47.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,471 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. against Atheer, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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