Where does Fair Isaac Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fair Isaac Corporation ranks #3,012 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 Fair Isaac Corporation hold?

Fair Isaac Corporation holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Fair Isaac Corporation's Innovation Score?

Fair Isaac Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.5 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fair Isaac Corporation focus on?

Fair Isaac Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 76 patents, ranking #683 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fair Isaac Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fair Isaac Corporation's recent grant velocity is +103% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fair Isaac Corporation's patents?

Fair Isaac Corporation'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 Fair Isaac Corporation 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

Fair Isaac Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 15 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, Fair ranks #3,012 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 15 technology areas.

#3,012
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +103%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3012 · US Corporation #3,012 · 126 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,012/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cobra Golf Incorpora…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +103% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cobra Golf Incorporated (±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 Fair’s 47.5 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 16.7 pts (35%) Velocity 6.1 pts (13%) Breadth 13.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fair Isaac · this assignee

48
Flexenable · near

48
Ivanti · near

48
Luxtera · near

48
Safran Seats · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fair's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (top 18% 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 Fair?

Each dot is one of Fair’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). Fair’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fair's grants concentrate

Fair Isaac Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 60.3% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (22 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Fair sits between Cobra Golf Incorporated and Hunter Industries, Inc..

Fair's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fair Isaac Corporation moved from 46 to 42 grants (0.91x 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 #1,432. See the growth leaderboard.

Cobra Golf Incorp…

126
Dexin

126
Dena

126
Deutsche Post

126
Fyusion

126
Goodrich Actuatio…

126
Hisense Electric

126
Hunter Industries

126
Fair Isaac ◀

126

What this shows Fair holds 126 patents at rank #3,011, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fair

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,011 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fair, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Fair ranks #683 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Luxtera, Inc. 48 Ivanti, Inc. 48 Flexenable Limited 48 Safran Seats 48

Similar claim depth

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

Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC 18.4 avg Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC 18.4 avg Alta Devices, Inc. 18.4 avg Zoox, Inc. 18.4 avg

Fair's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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.

View data table

Fair Isaac Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.4%
2016	5	4.0%
2017	11	8.7%
2018	8	6.3%
2019	11	8.7%
2020	13	10.3%
2021	22	17.5%
2022	15	11.9%
2023	21	16.7%
2024	6	4.8%
2025partial year	11	8.7%

Which technologies does Fair Isaac Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 76

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 68

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 45

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 16

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

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

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Fair Isaac Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fair Isaac Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 60.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,012 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fair Isaac Corporation against Cobra Golf Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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.