Where does Simpler Postage, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Simpler Postage, Inc. ranks #20,429 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Simpler Postage, Inc. hold?

Simpler Postage, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Simpler Postage, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Simpler Postage, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Simpler Postage, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Simpler Postage, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Simpler Postage, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Simpler Postage, 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

Simpler Postage, Inc.

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

Simpler Postage, 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 14 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 9 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: 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, Simpler ranks #20,429 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 9 technology areas.

#20,429
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20429 · US Corporation #20,429 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,429/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Short Circuit
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Short Circuit Technologies Llc (±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
Simpler Postage · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Simpler's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Simpler's grants concentrate

Simpler Postage, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 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 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Simpler sits between Short Circuit Technologies Llc and Sociéte Anonyme De La Manufacture D'horlogerie Audemars Piquet & Cie.

Short Circuit

14
Shriners Hospital…

14
Sikora

14
Silver Creek Ston…

14
Sinai Health Syst…

14
Skycross

14
Smiths Interconne…

14
Sociéte anonyme d…

14
Simpler Postage ◀

14

What this shows Simpler holds 14 patents at rank #20,449, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Simpler

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,449 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Simpler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 50,000 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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Simpler Postage, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	7.1%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2022	3	21.4%
2023	5	35.7%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Simpler Postage, 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 14

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 5

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

G01G - WEIGHING 3

B64U - UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR 3

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 3

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 3

B64C - AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS 3

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 3

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,429

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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