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Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 93 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Intercontinental ranks #3,885 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 93 patents across 7 technology areas.

#3,885
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100)
23.3
avg claims per patent
+610%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3885 · US Corporation #3,885 · 93 grants

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

  • GRANTS-SMALL 93 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #3,885/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Elbee Pty
  • CPC-NARROW G06Q · 7 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-SURGE +610% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Elbee Pty Ltd. (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Intercontinental

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Intercontinental's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Intercontinental's grants concentrate

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 83.9% 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 2024 (20 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Intercontinental sits between Elbee Pty Ltd. and Labrador Diagnostics LLC.

Intercontinental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. moved from 27 to 48 grants (1.78x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Intercontinental's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Intercontinental holds 93 patents at rank #3,886, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Intercontinental

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,886 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

UNIVERSITÉ Paris DIDEROT—PARIS 7 51 Novaled GmbH 51 Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. 51 Donnelly Corporation 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.3 here).

Mftb Holdco, Inc. 23.3 avg Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC 23.2 avg Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC 23.2 avg TiVo Corporation 23.3 avg

Intercontinental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2017 2 2.2%
2018 4 4.3%
2019 4 4.3%
2020 8 8.6%
2021 15 16.1%
2022 14 15.1%
2023 14 15.1%
2024 20 21.5%
2025partial year 12 12.9%

Which technologies does Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. patent most?

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,885

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.9 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

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, 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,), 83.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
  • Ranked #3,885 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. against Elbee Pty Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.