Where does NCR Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NCR Corporation ranks #469 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 NCR Corporation hold?

NCR Corporation holds 942 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 105 technology areas.

What is NCR Corporation's Innovation Score?

NCR Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is NCR Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NCR Corporation's recent grant velocity is -1% 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 NCR Corporation's patents?

NCR Corporation's patents average 14.0 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 NCR Corporation 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

NCR Corporation

Q: What technology areas does NCR Corporation focus on?

NCR Corporation'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 524 patents, ranking #29 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 105 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 942 granted patents across 105 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, NCR ranks #469 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 942 patents across 105 technology areas.

#469
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R469 · US Corporation #469 · 942 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 942 grants
TOP-DECILE #469/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Midea Group
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 105 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Midea Group Co., Ltd. (±1 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 NCR’s 61.0 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 23.7 pts (39%) Velocity 3.9 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Semiconductor… · near

61
Tesla · near

61
McAfee · near

61
NCR · this assignee

61
Frore Systems · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows NCR's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (top 3% 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 NCR?

Each dot is one of NCR’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). NCR’s own 14.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How NCR's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, NCR Corporation received 468 grants versus 474 in 2015–2019 (-1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 130 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 19. Lead class G06Q accounts for 55.6% of the portfolio across 105 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (SINGAPORE) PTE. Ltd. (#465) and Fujikura Ltd. (#473).

NCR's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, NCR Corporation moved from 369 to 218 grants (0.59x 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 #2,472. See the growth leaderboard.

Lenovo Enterprise…

957
Korea University…

947
AAC Pte

946
Hand Held Products

946
NCR ◀

942
Midea Group

941
Uber

941
Agency FOR Scienc…

939
Fujikura

933

What this shows NCR holds 942 patents at rank #469, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NCR

By rank, the assignees closest to #469 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NCR, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), NCR ranks #29 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

McAfee, LLC 61 Frore Systems Inc. 61 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation 61 Tesla, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

Wacom Co., Ltd. 14.0 avg Faraday & Future Inc. 14.0 avg Telia Company AB 14.0 avg Berry Global, Inc. 14.0 avg

NCR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

NCR Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	92	9.8%
2016	90	9.6%
2017	73	7.7%
2018	100	10.6%
2019	119	12.6%
2020	120	12.7%
2021	130	13.8%
2022	100	10.6%
2023	99	10.5%
2024	19	2.0%

Which technologies does NCR Corporation 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 524

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 275

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 226

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 147

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 144

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 112

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 110

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 88

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 77

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 69

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 64

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 48

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 40

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 38

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 24

Top 15 of 105 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

NCR Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NCR Corporation'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,), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #469 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NCR Corporation against Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (SINGAPORE) PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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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