Where does Maplebear Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Maplebear Inc. ranks #2,183 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 Maplebear Inc. hold?

Maplebear Inc. holds 180 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Maplebear Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Maplebear Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Maplebear Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +9900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Maplebear Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Maplebear 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

Maplebear Inc.

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

Maplebear 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 150 patents, ranking #99 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 180 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Maplebear ranks #2,183 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 180 patents across 22 technology areas.

#2,183
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.8/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +9900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2183 · US Corporation #2,183 · 180 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 180 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,183/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Delavan
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 22 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +9900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Delavan 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 Maplebear’s 65.8 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 18.0 pts (27%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 16.6 pts (25%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Autodesk · near

66
Facebook · near

66
Maplebear · this assignee

66
Rolls-royce · near

66
Eaton Intelligent… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Maplebear's Innovation Score is 65.8/100 (top 1% 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 Maplebear?

Each dot is one of Maplebear’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). Maplebear’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Maplebear's grants concentrate

Maplebear Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 83.3% 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 (46 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Maplebear sits between Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd. and Stmicroelectronics PTE Ltd.

Maplebear's three-year grant acceleration

Maplebear Inc. shows 91 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Dowa Materials

180
DRÄGER Safety & K…

180
Delavan

180
Giesecke+Devrient…

180
Nipro

180
Olympus Medical S…

180
Samtec

180
Stmicroelectronic…

180
Maplebear ◀

180

What this shows Maplebear holds 180 patents at rank #2,183, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Maplebear

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,183 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Maplebear, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Maplebear ranks #99 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Rolls-royce plc 66 Facebook, Inc. 66 Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 66 Autodesk, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Movandi Corporation 18.8 avg Corephotonics Ltd. 18.8 avg Research Triangle Institute 18.8 avg AirWatch LLC 18.8 avg

Maplebear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Maplebear Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	0.6%
2020	3	1.7%
2021	6	3.3%
2022	9	5.0%
2023	36	20.0%
2024	46	25.6%
2025partial year	79	43.9%

Which technologies does Maplebear 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 150

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 60

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 49

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 18

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 8

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 7

G01G - Weighing 7

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 5

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 5

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

Top 15 of 22 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

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

Maplebear 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,), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,183 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Maplebear Inc. against Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.8/100 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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