Where does Federal Express Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Federal Express Corporation ranks #3,771 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 Federal Express Corporation hold?

Federal Express Corporation holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Federal Express Corporation's Innovation Score?

Federal Express Corporation has an Innovation Score of 66.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Federal Express Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Federal Express Corporation's recent grant velocity is +76% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Federal Express Corporation's patents?

Federal Express Corporation's patents average 31.8 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 Federal Express 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

Federal Express Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Federal Express Corporation focus on?

Federal Express Corporation'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 41 patents. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 58 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, Federal ranks #3,771 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 58 technology areas.

#3,771
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.9/100): 31.8
avg claims per patent: +76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3771 · US Corporation #3,771 · 96 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,771/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Covestro Intellectua…
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 58 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 31.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Federal Express · this assignee

67
Midea Group · near

67
Space Exploration · near

67
LG Chem · near

67
Purem · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Federal's Innovation Score is 66.9/100 (top 1% 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.

How Federal's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Federal Express Corporation received 51 grants versus 29 in 2015–2019 (+76% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 5. Lead class G06Q accounts for 42.7% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (#3,767) and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated (#3,775).

Federal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Federal Express Corporation moved from 21 to 35 grants (1.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Covestro Intellec…

96
Crosman

96
Dover Europe Sàrl

96
Erico Internation…

96
Floricultura

96
Hanmi Pharm

96
Hellermanntyton

96
Hallmark Cards In…

96
Federal Express ◀

96

What this shows Federal holds 96 patents at rank #3,771, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Federal

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,771 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Federal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 67 Midea Group Co., Ltd. 67 Purem GmbH 67 LG Chem, Ltd. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (31.8 here).

D5ai LLC 31.8 avg CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. 31.7 avg OVD Kinegram AG 31.5 avg ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc. 32.1 avg

Federal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Federal Express Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.3%
2016	5	5.2%
2017	6	6.3%
2018	7	7.3%
2019	5	5.2%
2020	10	10.4%
2021	6	6.3%
2022	7	7.3%
2023	13	13.5%
2024	15	15.6%
2025partial year	16	16.7%

Which technologies does Federal Express Corporation 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 41

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 29

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

A62C - Fire-fighting 18

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 16

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 16

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 16

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 13

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 11

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 11

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,771

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Federal Express Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Federal Express Corporation'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,), 42.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #3,771 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Federal Express Corporation against Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.9/100 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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