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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Citizens Financial Group, Inc. ranks #22,385 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 Citizens Financial Group, Inc. hold?

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Citizens Financial Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.6 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 Citizens Financial Group, Inc. focus on?

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 9 patents, ranking #3,920 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

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

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

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

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.'s patents average 23.1 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 Citizens Financial Group, 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

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Citizens ranks #22,385 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,385
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 23.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22385 · US Corporation #22,385 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,385/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH China Building…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: China Building Materials Academy Co., 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 Citizens’s 50.6 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 8.9 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 7.9 pts (16%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Citizens Financial… · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Citizens's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (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 Citizens?

Each dot is one of Citizens’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). Citizens’s own 23.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Citizens's grants concentrate

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Citizens sits between China Building Materials Academy Co., Ltd. and Codebroker, LLC.

Citizens's three-year grant acceleration

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. shows 5 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.

China Building Ma…

12
Chobani

12
Chongqing Gigachi…

12
Churchill Drillin…

12
Climate Master

12
Cloudsight

12
Coda Therapeutics

12
Codebroker

12
Citizens Financia… ◀

12

What this shows Citizens holds 12 patents at rank #22,412, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Citizens

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,412 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Citizens'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 · 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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Citizens Financial Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	2	16.7%
2025partial year	7	58.3%

Which technologies does Citizens Financial Group, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

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 9

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

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Citizens Financial Group, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #22,385 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Citizens Financial Group, Inc. against China Building Materials Academy Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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.