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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Staples, Inc. ranks #4,794 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 Staples, Inc. hold?

Staples, Inc. holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Staples, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Staples, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Staples, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +183% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Staples, Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Staples, 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

Staples, Inc.

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

Staples, 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 48 patents, ranking #305 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 32 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, Staples ranks #4,794 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 32 technology areas.

#4,794
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +183%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4794 · US Corporation #4,794 · 73 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,794/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sequenom
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +183% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sequenom, Inc. (±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 Staples’s 52.0 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 14.9 pts (29%) Velocity 5.9 pts (11%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ClearMotion · near

52
Akamai · near

52
Orbital Research · near

52
Somerset Therapeutics · near

52
Staples · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Staples's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 Staples?

Each dot is one of Staples’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). Staples’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Staples's grants concentrate

Staples, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 65.8% 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 2021 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Staples sits between Somfy SAS and Vast Data Ltd..

Staples's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Staples, Inc. moved from 33 to 29 grants (0.88x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Somfy SAS

73
SRC

73
Stoneage

73
Sequenom

73
Synchrony Bank

73
TD Ameritrade IP

73
Traeger Pellet Gr…

73
Vast Data

73
Staples ◀

73

What this shows Staples holds 73 patents at rank #4,795, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Staples

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,795 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Staples, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Staples ranks #305 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Orbital Research Inc. 52 Somerset Therapeutics, LLC 52 Akamai Technologies, Inc. 52 ClearMotion, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS 18.7 avg Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation 18.7 avg AI Incorporated 18.7 avg Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. 18.7 avg

Staples's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Staples, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.7%
2016	1	1.4%
2017	1	1.4%
2018	3	4.1%
2019	11	15.1%
2020	10	13.7%
2021	12	16.4%
2022	8	11.0%
2023	10	13.7%
2024	11	15.1%
2025partial year	4	5.5%

Which technologies does Staples, 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 48

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 22

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 7

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 7

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 6

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 6

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 5

C07K - Peptides 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

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

Top 15 of 32 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

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

Staples, 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,), 65.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,794 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Staples, Inc. against Somfy SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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

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