Where does Expensify, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Expensify, Inc. ranks #10,611 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 Expensify, Inc. hold?

Expensify, Inc. holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Expensify, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Expensify, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.6 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Expensify, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Expensify, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Expensify, 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

Expensify, Inc.

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

Expensify, 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 24 patents, ranking #557 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 6 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, Expensify ranks #10,611 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 6 technology areas.

#10,611
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10611 · US Corporation #10,611 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,611/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Controls
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electronic Controls 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 Expensify’s 37.6 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 11.7 pts (31%) Velocity 6.7 pts (18%) Breadth 8.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DMK Deutsches… · near

38
Expensify · this assignee

38
Helmut Fischer… · near

38
ILI Technology · near

38
Siemens · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Expensify's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (top 43% 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 Expensify?

Each dot is one of Expensify’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). Expensify’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Expensify's grants concentrate

Expensify, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 82.8% 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 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Expensify sits between Electronic Controls Inc. and Finewell Co., Ltd..

Expensify's three-year grant acceleration

Expensify, Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Controls

29
Elisa Oyj

29
Engeneic Molecula…

29
Exone

29
Experian Health

29
FFI Ionix IP

29
Fiat Group Automo…

29
Finewell

29
Expensify ◀

29

What this shows Expensify holds 29 patents at rank #10,610, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Expensify

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,610 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Expensify, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Expensify ranks #557 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Siemens PLC 38 DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH 38 Helmut Fischer GMBH Institut FÜR Elektronik UND Messtechnik 38 ILI Technology Corp. 38

Expensify's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% 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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Expensify, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.4%
2017	2	6.9%
2018	1	3.4%
2019	4	13.8%
2020	3	10.3%
2021	3	10.3%
2022	3	10.3%
2023	4	13.8%
2024	3	10.3%
2025partial year	5	17.2%

Which technologies does Expensify, 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 24

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

Top 6 of 6 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

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

Expensify, 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,), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #10,611 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Expensify, Inc. against Electronic Controls Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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

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