Where does Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. ranks #3,885 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 Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. hold?

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. holds 93 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +610% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s patents?

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.'s patents average 23.3 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 Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, 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

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. focus on?

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, 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 78 patents, ranking #185 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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.

How Intercontinental’s 50.9 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 15.7 pts (31%) Velocity 11.9 pts (23%) Breadth 9.4 pts (18%) Claim depth 14.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Donnelly · near

51
Intercontinental… · this assignee

51
Novaled · near

51
Shenzhen First… · near

51
UNIVERSITÉ Paris… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Intercontinental?

Each dot is one of Intercontinental’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). Intercontinental’s own 23.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

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.

Elbee Pty

93
Fidlock

93
Future Motion

93
Intermec IP

93
Kids II

93
Korea Basic Scien…

93
LG CNS

93
Labrador Diagnost…

93
Intercontinental… ◀

93

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.

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). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Intercontinental ranks #185 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

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

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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?

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 78

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

G01W - Meteorology 9

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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