Where does Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase ranks #29,386 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 International Incorporated Purchase hold?

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase's Innovation Score?

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase has an Innovation Score of 41.3 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 International Incorporated Purchase's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase's patents?

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase's patents average 16.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase

Q: What technology areas does Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase focus on?

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase'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 9 patents, ranking #1,413 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase 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 PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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 #29,386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 8 technology areas.

#29,386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29386 · US Corporation #29,386 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Marel Meat Processing
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Marel Meat Processing 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 Mastercard’s 41.3 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 8.0 pts (19%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mastercard Internati… · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mastercard's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (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 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 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 International Incorporated Purchase is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Mastercard sits between Marel Meat Processing Inc. and Mavel EDT S.P.A..

Mastercard's three-year grant acceleration

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Marel Meat Proces…

9
Maruwa

9
Maschinenfabrik N…

9
Mascot Internatio…

9
Matatakitoyo Tool

9
Matrix Sensors

9
Matsuo Industries

9
Mavel EDT S P A

9
Mastercard Intern… ◀

9

What this shows Mastercard holds 9 patents at rank #29,347, 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 #29,347 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.

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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	11.1%
2017	3	33.3%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	1	11.1%
2024	2	22.2%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase 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 9

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

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 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 8 of 8 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 International Incorporated Purchase's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase'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,), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #29,386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mastercard International Incorporated Purchase against Marel Meat Processing Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.3/100 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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