Where does Paypal, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Paypal, Inc. ranks #147 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 Paypal, Inc. hold?

Paypal, Inc. holds 2,609 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Paypal, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Paypal, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 70.6 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 Paypal, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Paypal, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +70% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Paypal, Inc.'s patents?

Paypal, Inc.'s patents average 19.6 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 Paypal, Inc. 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

Paypal, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Paypal, Inc. focus on?

Paypal, Inc.'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 1,593 patents. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,609 granted patents across 62 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, Paypal ranks #147 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,609 patents across 62 technology areas.

#147
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R147 · US Corporation #147 · 2,609 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #147/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arm
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 62 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arm Limited (±4 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cytiva Sweden AB · near

71
Postech Research… · near

71
Safran Nacelles · near

71
Zebra · near

71
Paypal · this assignee

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Paypal's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (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.

How Paypal's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Paypal, Inc. received 1,547 grants versus 909 in 2015–2019 (+70% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 327 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 48. Lead class G06Q accounts for 61.1% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Asml Netherlands B.V. (#143) and Commscope Technologies LLC (#151).

Paypal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Paypal, Inc. moved from 911 to 911 grants (1.00x 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 #1,192. See the growth leaderboard.

Asml Netherlands…

2,645
Airbus Operations

2,643
Kioxia

2,641
Arm

2,613
Paypal ◀

2,609
Red Hat

2,585
Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron

2,552
Commscope

2,550

What this shows Paypal holds 2,609 patents at rank #147, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Paypal

By rank, the assignees closest to #147 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Paypal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Zebra Technologies Corporation 71 Safran Nacelles 71 Postech Research and Business Development Foundation 71 Cytiva Sweden AB 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Oracle International Corporation 19.6 avg THE Volcano Corporation 19.6 avg Unity Technologies SF 19.6 avg Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. 19.6 avg

Paypal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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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Paypal, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	48	1.8%
2016	150	5.7%
2017	205	7.9%
2018	231	8.9%
2019	275	10.5%
2020	309	11.8%
2021	327	12.5%
2022	312	12.0%
2023	316	12.1%
2024	283	10.8%
2025partial year	153	5.9%

Which technologies does Paypal, Inc. 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 1,593

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,291

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 978

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 407

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 278

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 120

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 104

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 93

H04M - Telephonic Communication 82

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 62

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 49

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 42

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 30

H04B - Transmission 27

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 24

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#147

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Paypal, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Paypal, Inc.'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,), 61.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #147 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Paypal, Inc. against Asml Netherlands B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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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