Where does Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. ranks #5,861 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 Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. hold?

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +291% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s patents?

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s patents average 16.6 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 Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. focus on?

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'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 55 patents, ranking #260 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 14 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, Mastercard ranks #5,861 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 14 technology areas.

#5,861
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +291%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5861 · Foreign Corporation #5,861 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,861/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Leapfrog Product…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +291% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Leapfrog Product Development LLC (±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 Mastercard’s 41.5 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 14.1 pts (34%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 13.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jacobs Vehicle Systems · near

41
Mastercard ASIA/PACI… · this assignee

41
New Balance Athletics · near

41
Sony Europe · near

41
vArmour Networks · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mastercard's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Mastercard?

Each dot is one of Mastercard’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). Mastercard’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mastercard's grants concentrate

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 94.8% 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 (16 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2022. By volume, Mastercard sits between Leapfrog Product Development LLC and National Nail Corp..

Mastercard's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. moved from 33 to 21 grants (0.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Leapfrog Product…

58
Lensar

58
MAC Trailer Manuf…

58
MAG Instrument

58
Mattersight

58
Nippon Thompson

58
Nortek Security &…

58
National Nail

58
Mastercard ASIA/P… ◀

58

What this shows Mastercard holds 58 patents at rank #5,861, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mastercard

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,861 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mastercard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Mastercard ranks #260 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sony Europe Limited 41 New Balance Athletics, Inc. 41 Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. 41 vArmour Networks, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Dyax Corp. 16.6 avg Ultrahaptics IP Ltd 16.6 avg THE University OF Ottawa 16.6 avg Arbor Networks, Inc. 16.6 avg

Mastercard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	11	19.0%
2020	16	27.6%
2021	6	10.3%
2022	5	8.6%
2023	8	13.8%
2024	8	13.8%
2025partial year	4	6.9%

Which technologies does Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. 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 55

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 11

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd.'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,), 94.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #5,861 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. against Leapfrog Product Development LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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