Where does Ingenico Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ingenico Inc. ranks #2,861 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 Ingenico Inc. hold?

Ingenico Inc. holds 134 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Ingenico Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ingenico Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ingenico Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Ingenico Inc.'s patents?

Ingenico Inc.'s patents average 9.2 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 Ingenico 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

Ingenico Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ingenico Inc. focus on?

Ingenico 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 61 patents, ranking #242 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 134 granted patents across 41 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, Ingenico ranks #2,861 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 134 patents across 41 technology areas.

#2,861
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 9.2
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2861 · US Corporation #2,861 · 134 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 134 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,861/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bruker Nano
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bruker Nano, 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 Ingenico’s 45.8 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 16.9 pts (37%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 22.6 pts (49%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Parsons Xtreme Golf · near

46
Ingenico · this assignee

46
Keihin · near

46
Phosphorus Free… · near

46
Stine Seed Farm · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ingenico's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 Ingenico?

Each dot is one of Ingenico’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). Ingenico’s own 9.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ingenico's grants concentrate

Ingenico Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 45.5% 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 2020 (29 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Ingenico sits between Bruker Nano, Inc. and Smith & Wesson Inc..

Ingenico's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ingenico Inc. moved from 76 to 8 grants (0.10x 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 #3,170. See the growth leaderboard.

Bruker Nano

134
Hendrickson USA L…

134
Imam Mohammad IBN…

134
Immunomedics

134
P-tech

134
Siemens Healthine…

134
Sumida

134
Smith & Wesson

134
Ingenico ◀

134

What this shows Ingenico holds 134 patents at rank #2,861, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ingenico

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,861 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ingenico, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Ingenico ranks #242 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Keihin Corporation 46 Stine Seed Farm, Inc. 46 Phosphorus Free Water Solutions, LLC 46 Parsons Xtreme Golf, LLC 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.2 here).

Rigaku Corporation 9.2 avg DeNA Co., Ltd. 9.2 avg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. 9.2 avg Zumtobel Lighting GmbH 9.1 avg

Ingenico's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Ingenico Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	3.7%
2016	13	9.7%
2017	17	12.7%
2018	15	11.2%
2019	25	18.7%
2020	29	21.6%
2021	22	16.4%
2022	4	3.0%
2023	2	1.5%
2024	2	1.5%

Which technologies does Ingenico 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 61

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 51

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 35

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 30

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 13

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 11

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

H04B - Transmission 7

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 6

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 6

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

Top 15 of 41 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

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

Ingenico 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,), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,861 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ingenico Inc. against Bruker Nano, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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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