Where does Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC ranks #5,958 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 Technologies Canada ULC hold?

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's Innovation Score?

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC focus on?

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 38 patents, ranking #1,223 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's recent grant velocity is +583% 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 Technologies Canada ULC's patents?

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's patents average 18.9 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 Technologies Canada ULC 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 Technologies Canada ULC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mastercard ranks #5,958 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 8 technology areas.

#5,958
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +583%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5958 · Foreign Corporation #5,958 · 57 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,958/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kwansei Gakuin…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +583% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kwansei Gakuin Educational Foundation (±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 55.4 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 14.0 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 10.0 pts (18%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gates · near

55
Lehigh University · near

55
Mastercard Canada ULC · this assignee

55
Simmonds Precision… · near

55
Taipei Medical… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mastercard's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 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 Technologies Canada ULC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Mastercard sits between Kwansei Gakuin Educational Foundation and Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc..

Mastercard's three-year grant acceleration

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC shows 34 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Kwansei Gakuin Ed…

57
Kyosan Electric M…

57
La-z-boy Incorpor…

57
Lyondell Chemical…

57
Medical Components

57
Metrologic Instru…

57
MGI Tech

57
Mitsui Chemicals…

57
Mastercard Canada… ◀

57

What this shows Mastercard holds 57 patents at rank #5,956, 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 #5,956 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Mastercard ranks #1,223 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Lehigh University 55 Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. 55 Gates Corporation 55 Taipei Medical University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

TQ Delta, LLC 18.9 avg Poet Research, Inc. 18.9 avg Docusign, Inc. 18.9 avg X Development LLC 18.9 avg

Mastercard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	5	8.8%
2019	1	1.8%
2020	3	5.3%
2021	4	7.0%
2022	15	26.3%
2023	7	12.3%
2024	12	21.1%
2025partial year	10	17.5%

Which technologies does Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 36

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 17

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 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 Technologies Canada ULC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #5,958 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC against Kwansei Gakuin Educational Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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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