Where does Equifax Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Equifax Inc. ranks #2,945 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 Equifax Inc. hold?

Equifax Inc. holds 129 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Equifax Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Equifax Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.1 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%).

What technology areas does Equifax Inc. focus on?

Equifax Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 89 patents, ranking #598 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

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

Equifax Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +543% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Equifax Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Equifax 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

Equifax Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 129 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Equifax ranks #2,945 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 129 patents across 10 technology areas.

#2,945
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +543%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2945 · US Corporation #2,945 · 129 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 129 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,945/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AMS International
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +543% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AMS International AG (±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 Equifax’s 51.1 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 16.8 pts (33%) Velocity 12.0 pts (23%) Breadth 11.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Edjx · near

51
Equifax · this assignee

51
GE OIL & GAS UK · near

51
National University… · near

51
Xiamen Solex… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Equifax's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (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 Equifax?

Each dot is one of Equifax’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). Equifax’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Equifax's grants concentrate

Equifax Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (26 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Equifax sits between AMS International AG and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Equifax's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Equifax Inc. moved from 35 to 63 grants (1.80x 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 #269. See the growth leaderboard.

AMS International

129
Ball

129
Basf Plant Science

129
Dish Network Indi…

129
First Data

129
Lenovo Innovation…

129
Line Plus

129
Millennium Pharma…

129
Equifax ◀

129

What this shows Equifax holds 129 patents at rank #2,945, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Equifax

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,945 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Equifax, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Equifax ranks #598 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd 51 Xiamen Solex High-Tech Industries Co., Ltd. 51 National University Corporation Tottori University 51 Edjx, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Cancer Research Technology Limited 18.4 avg Rosemount Tank Radar AB 18.4 avg Abiomed Europe GmbH 18.4 avg Panasonic Avionics Corporation 18.4 avg

Equifax'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Equifax Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	2.3%
2018	3	2.3%
2019	8	6.2%
2020	11	8.5%
2021	16	12.4%
2022	26	20.2%
2023	17	13.2%
2024	20	15.5%
2025partial year	25	19.4%

Which technologies does Equifax Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 89

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 53

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 51

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 40

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

Equifax Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,945 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Equifax Inc. against AMS International AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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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