Where does STAMPS.COM Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STAMPS.COM Inc. ranks #6,284 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 STAMPS.COM Inc. hold?

STAMPS.COM Inc. holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is STAMPS.COM Inc.'s Innovation Score?

STAMPS.COM Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is STAMPS.COM Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STAMPS.COM Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +8% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for STAMPS.COM Inc.'s patents?

STAMPS.COM Inc.'s patents average 22.2 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 STAMPS.COM 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

STAMPS.COM Inc.

Q: What technology areas does STAMPS.COM Inc. focus on?

STAMPS.COM 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 40 patents, ranking #355 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 16 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, Stamps.com ranks #6,284 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 16 technology areas.

#6,284
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6284 · US Corporation #6,284 · 54 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,284/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Santoni S P A
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Santoni S.P.A. (±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 Stamps.com’s 42.9 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 13.8 pts (32%) Velocity 1.6 pts (4%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Credence MedSystems · near

43
Mycotechnology · near

43
STAMPS COM · this assignee

43
ConforMIS · near

43
Noxell · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stamps.com's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 30% 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 Stamps.com?

Each dot is one of Stamps.com’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). Stamps.com’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stamps.com's grants concentrate

STAMPS.COM Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 74.1% 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 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Stamps.com sits between Santoni S.P.A. and Semiconductor Manufacturing (Shanghai) International Corporation.

Stamps.com's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, STAMPS.COM Inc. moved from 30 to 7 grants (0.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Santoni S P A

54
Seiren

54
Skybell IP

54
Smart ULC

54
Syngenta

54
Security First

54
Semiconductor Man…

54
Semiconductor Man…

54
Stamps COM ◀

54

What this shows STAMPS.COM holds 54 patents at rank #6,276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near STAMPSCOM

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,276 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for STAMPSCOM, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), STAMPSCOM ranks #355 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Credence MedSystems, Inc. 43 Mycotechnology, Inc 43 Noxell Corporation 43 ConforMIS, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

Brewer Science, Inc. 22.2 avg Netlist, Inc. 22.2 avg Egnyte, Inc. 22.2 avg Afiniti Europe Technologies Limited 22.2 avg

Stamps.com's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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STAMPS.COM Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.6%
2016	1	1.9%
2017	8	14.8%
2018	5	9.3%
2019	9	16.7%
2020	11	20.4%
2021	10	18.5%
2022	6	11.1%
2024	1	1.9%

Which technologies does STAMPS.COM 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 40

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G01G - Weighing 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

F16S - Constructional Elements IN GENERAL; Structures Built-up From Such Elements, IN General 1

Top 15 of 16 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

STAMPS.COM Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STAMPS.COM 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,), 74.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #6,284 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STAMPS.COM Inc. against Santoni S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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

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