Where does Flowbird rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Flowbird ranks #46,789 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 Flowbird hold?

Flowbird holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Flowbird's Innovation Score?

Flowbird has an Innovation Score of 25.9 out of 100 (19th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Flowbird's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Flowbird.

What does claim depth mean for Flowbird's patents?

Flowbird's patents average 6.8 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 Flowbird 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 Foreign Corporation

Flowbird

Q: What technology areas does Flowbird focus on?

Flowbird'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 3 patents, ranking #3,377 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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, Flowbird ranks #46,789 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 10 technology areas.

#46,789
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 19th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.9/100): 6.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46789 · Foreign Corporation #46,789 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,789/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flexshopper
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flexshopper, 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 Flowbird’s 25.9 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 6.2 pts (24%) Velocity 4.4 pts (17%) Breadth 11.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 4.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flowbird · this assignee

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Flowbird's Innovation Score is 25.9/100 (19th percentile 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 Flowbird?

Each dot is one of Flowbird’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). Flowbird’s own 6.8 claims/patent is at or below the 12.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Flowbird's grants concentrate

Flowbird is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 60% 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 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Flowbird sits between Flexshopper, Inc. and Fluid Components International LLC.

Flowbird's three-year grant acceleration

Flowbird shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Flexshopper

5
Flipsi

5
Flo-water

5
Florida Atlantic…

5
Flowfinity Wirele…

5
Flowgen Developme…

5
Floyd Design

5
Fluid Components…

5
Flowbird ◀

5

What this shows Flowbird holds 5 patents at rank #46,727, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Flowbird

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,727 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Flowbird's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 19th percentile higher than 19% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Flowbird patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	3	60.0%
2022	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Flowbird 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 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 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

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

Flowbird'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,), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #46,789 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Flowbird against Flexshopper, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.9/100 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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