Where does Mastercard International Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mastercard International Incorporated ranks #200 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 hold?

Mastercard International Incorporated holds 2,038 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is Mastercard International Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Mastercard International Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 67.5 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 Mastercard International Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mastercard International Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +128% 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 International Incorporated's patents?

Mastercard International Incorporated's patents average 17.2 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 International Incorporated 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

Mastercard International Incorporated

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

Mastercard International Incorporated'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 1,644 patents, ranking #8 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,038 granted patents across 69 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 #200 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,038 patents across 69 technology areas.

#200
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.5/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +128%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R200 · US Corporation #200 · 2,038 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #200/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Broadcom
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 69 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +128% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Broadcom Corporation (±3 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 67.5 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 26.3 pts (39%) Velocity 5.8 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Teledyne Flir… · near

67
JT International · near

67
Northwestern… · near

67
Mastercard Internati… · this assignee

67
Synopsys · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mastercard's Innovation Score is 67.5/100 (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 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 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 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.

How Mastercard's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mastercard International Incorporated received 1,326 grants versus 582 in 2015–2019 (+128% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 304 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 43. Lead class G06Q accounts for 80.7% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (#196) and Subaru Corporation (#204).

Mastercard's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mastercard International Incorporated moved from 840 to 731 grants (0.87x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,595. See the growth leaderboard.

Skyworks Solutions

2,061
Disney Enterprises

2,051
Ethicon

2,042
Broadcom

2,041
Mastercard Intern… ◀

2,038
IGT

2,014
Pratt & Whitney C…

2,008
King Fahd Univers…

2,002
Subaru

1,977

What this shows Mastercard holds 2,038 patents at rank #200, 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 #200 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 #8 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Northwestern University 67 Synopsys, Inc. 67 JT International SA 67 Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

Wipro Limited 17.2 avg Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. 17.2 avg Lemon Inc. 17.2 avg Moog Inc. 17.2 avg

Mastercard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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 · 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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	43	2.1%
2016	58	2.8%
2017	99	4.9%
2018	137	6.7%
2019	245	12.0%
2020	291	14.3%
2021	304	14.9%
2022	274	13.4%
2023	255	12.5%
2024	202	9.9%
2025partial year	130	6.4%

Which technologies does Mastercard International Incorporated 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 1,644

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 689

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 583

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 191

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 124

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 82

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 67

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 31

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 30

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 29

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 25

H04M - Telephonic Communication 24

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 20

H04B - Transmission 20

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 19

Top 15 of 69 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's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mastercard International Incorporated'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,), 80.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #200 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mastercard International Incorporated against Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.5/100 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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