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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chime Financial, Inc. ranks #9,734 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 Chime Financial, Inc. hold?

Chime Financial, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Chime Financial, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Chime Financial, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.2 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

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

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

Chime Financial, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Chime Financial, 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

Chime Financial, Inc.

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

Chime Financial, 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 16 patents, ranking #817 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 5 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, Chime ranks #9,734 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 5 technology areas.

#9,734
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.2/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9734 · US Corporation #9,734 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,734/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canrig Drilling…
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd. (±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 Chime’s 51.2 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 12.1 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 7.9 pts (15%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ascendis Pharma A/S · near

51
Chime Financial · this assignee

51
Technical University… · near

51
Transocean Sedco… · near

51
Yamaguchi University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chime's Innovation Score is 51.2/100 (top 12% 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 Chime?

Each dot is one of Chime’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). Chime’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Chime's grants concentrate

Chime Financial, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2024 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Chime sits between Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd. and CoolIT Systems, Inc..

Chime's three-year grant acceleration

Chime Financial, Inc. shows 21 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.

Canrig Drilling T…

32
Canyon Bicycles

32
Ceres Intellectua…

32
Chang Gung Memori…

32
Chipmos

32
Coflex de C V

32
Convergent Dental

32
Coolit Systems

32
Chime Financial ◀

32

What this shows Chime holds 32 patents at rank #9,740, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chime

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,740 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Chime, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Chime ranks #817 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Technical University of Denmark 51 Ascendis Pharma A/S 51 Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited 51 Yamaguchi University 51

Chime's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Chime Financial, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	3.1%
2023	4	12.5%
2024	16	50.0%
2025partial year	11	34.4%

Which technologies does Chime Financial, 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 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 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

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

Chime Financial, 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,), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #9,734 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chime Financial, Inc. against Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.2/100 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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