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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Groupon, Inc. ranks #677 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 Groupon, Inc. hold?

Groupon, Inc. holds 664 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Groupon, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Groupon, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Groupon, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +157% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Groupon, Inc.'s patents average 21.5 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 Groupon, 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

Groupon, Inc.

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

Groupon, 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 521 patents, ranking #30 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 664 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Groupon ranks #677 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 664 patents across 19 technology areas.

#677
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.7/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: +157%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R677 · US Corporation #677 · 664 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 664 grants
TOP-DECILE #677/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH thyssenkrupp
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +157% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: thyssenkrupp AG (±1 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 Groupon’s 55.7 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 22.5 pts (40%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 15.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cleveland State… · near

56
Csem Centre Suisse… · near

56
Groupon · this assignee

56
Keio University · near

56
Meidensha · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Groupon's Innovation Score is 55.7/100 (top 7% 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 Groupon?

Each dot is one of Groupon’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). Groupon’s own 21.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Groupon's grants concentrate

Groupon, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 78.5% 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 2021 (134 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2015. By volume, Groupon sits between King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Accenture Global Services Limited.

Groupon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Groupon, Inc. moved from 322 to 238 grants (0.74x 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 #2,021. See the growth leaderboard.

King Abdullah Uni…

669
Socionext

668
Takeda Pharmaceut…

668
thyssenkrupp

665
Groupon ◀

664
Boehringer Ingelh…

662
Datang Mobile Com…

661
Ordos Yuansheng O…

661
Accenture Global…

660

What this shows Groupon holds 664 patents at rank #677, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Groupon

By rank, the assignees closest to #677 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Groupon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Groupon ranks #30 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Keio University 56 Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT 56 Cleveland State University 56 Meidensha Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.5 here).

Konami Gaming, Inc. 21.5 avg Built Robotics Inc. 21.5 avg Varian Medical Systems International AG 21.5 avg Proton World International N.V. 21.5 avg

Groupon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Groupon, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	1.8%
2016	16	2.4%
2017	37	5.6%
2018	39	5.9%
2019	82	12.3%
2020	106	16.0%
2021	134	20.2%
2022	118	17.8%
2023	104	15.7%
2024	16	2.4%

Which technologies does Groupon, 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 521

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 243

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 101

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 97

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 80

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 13

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 9

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 8

H04B - Transmission 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

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 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

Top 15 of 19 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

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

Groupon, 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,), 78.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #677 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Groupon, Inc. against King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.7/100 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

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