Where does First Data Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), First Data Corporation ranks #2,946 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 First Data Corporation hold?

First Data Corporation holds 129 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is First Data Corporation's Innovation Score?

First Data Corporation has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is First Data Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

First Data Corporation's recent grant velocity is -51% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for First Data Corporation's patents?

First Data Corporation's patents average 16.2 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 First Data 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

First Data Corporation

Q: What technology areas does First Data Corporation focus on?

First Data 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 105 patents, ranking #143 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 129 granted patents across 21 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, First ranks #2,946 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 129 patents across 21 technology areas.

#2,946
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2946 · US Corporation #2,946 · 129 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 129 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,946/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Corporation (±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 First’s 45.3 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 (37%) Velocity 2.6 pts (6%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
First Data · this assignee

45
Fujimori Kogyo · near

45
Herman Miller · near

45
Itron Networked… · near

45
The GSI Group · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows First's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 23% 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 First?

Each dot is one of First’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). First’s own 16.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where First's grants concentrate

First Data Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 81.4% 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 2016 (20 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2023. By volume, First sits between Ball Corporation and Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited.

First's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, First Data Corporation moved from 44 to 17 grants (0.39x 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 #2,902. See the growth leaderboard.

Ball

129
Basf Plant Science

129
Dish Network Indi…

129
Equifax

129
Lenovo Innovation…

129
Line Plus

129
Millennium Pharma…

129
Nano and Advanced…

129
First Data ◀

129

What this shows First holds 129 patents at rank #2,946, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near First

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,946 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for First, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), First ranks #143 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Herman Miller, Inc. 45 Fujimori Kogyo Co., Ltd. 45 Itron Networked Solutions, Inc. 45 The GSI Group, LLC 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Novelis Inc. 16.2 avg Newtonoid Technologies, L.L.C. 16.2 avg Southern Research Institute 16.2 avg Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 16.2 avg

First's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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

First Data Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	11.6%
2016	20	15.5%
2017	15	11.6%
2018	16	12.4%
2019	19	14.7%
2020	15	11.6%
2021	10	7.8%
2022	6	4.7%
2023	5	3.9%
2024	6	4.7%
2025partial year	2	1.6%

Which technologies does First Data 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 105

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 35

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 24

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 9

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 7

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

First Data Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

First Data 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,), 81.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,946 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare First Data Corporation against Ball Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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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