Where does Shift4 Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shift4 Corporation ranks #27,403 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 Shift4 Corporation hold?

Shift4 Corporation holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Shift4 Corporation's Innovation Score?

Shift4 Corporation has an Innovation Score of 26.3 out of 100 (20th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shift4 Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shift4 Corporation's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Shift4 Corporation's patents?

Shift4 Corporation's patents average 14.3 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 Shift4 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

Shift4 Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Shift4 Corporation focus on?

Shift4 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 10 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 2 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, Shift4 ranks #27,403 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 2 technology areas.

#27,403
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 20th percentile
by Innovation Score (26.3/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27403 · US Corporation #27,403 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,403/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen eMeet…
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen eMeet Technology Co., Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shift4 · this assignee

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shift4's Innovation Score is 26.3/100 (20th percentile 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.

Where Shift4's grants concentrate

Shift4 Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 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 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Shift4 sits between Shenzhen Xianyang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. and Sidus Space, Inc..

Shift4's three-year grant acceleration

Shift4 Corporation shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Shenzhen Xianyang…

10
Shenzhen Yifeng I…

10
Shenzhen emeet Te…

10
Shenzhen icase Te…

10
Shinhan Card

10
Shoes For Crews

10
Shur-

10
Sidus Space

10
Shift4 ◀

10

What this shows Shift4 holds 10 patents at rank #27,466, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shift4

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,466 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Shift4's primary technology class.

Shift4's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 20th percentile higher than 20% 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.

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Shift4 Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2016	2	20.0%
2017	2	20.0%
2019	2	20.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Shift4 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 10

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,403

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.3 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

Shift4 Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shift4 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,), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #27,403 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shift4 Corporation against Shenzhen Xianyang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.3/100 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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