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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stripe, Inc. ranks #1,719 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 Stripe, Inc. hold?

Stripe, Inc. holds 238 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Stripe, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Stripe, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Stripe, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +655% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Stripe, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Stripe, 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

Stripe, Inc.

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

Stripe, 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 148 patents, ranking #100 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 238 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Stripe ranks #1,719 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 238 patents across 16 technology areas.

#1,719
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.3/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +655%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1719 · US Corporation #1,719 · 238 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 238 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,719/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Children's Hospital…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 16 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +655% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Children's Hospital Medical Center (±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 Stripe’s 64.3 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 18.9 pts (29%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 14.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing BOE Display… · near

64
Flagship Pioneering… · near

64
Stripe · this assignee

64
Qatar Foundation… · near

64
Rohr · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stripe's Innovation Score is 64.3/100 (top 2% 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 Stripe?

Each dot is one of Stripe’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). Stripe’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stripe's grants concentrate

Stripe, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 62.2% 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 (60 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2020. By volume, Stripe sits between Children's Hospital Medical Center and Hitachi Maxell, Ltd..

Stripe's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stripe, Inc. moved from 27 to 133 grants (4.93x 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 #29. See the growth leaderboard.

Children's Hospit…

238
KING COM

238
LX Semicon

238
Physio-control

238
Triple WIN Techno…

238
Stripe ◀

238
AVL List

237
Faraday & Future

237
Hitachi Maxell

237

What this shows Stripe holds 238 patents at rank #1,719, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stripe

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,719 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stripe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Stripe ranks #100 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC 64 Qatar Foundation FOR Education, Science AND Community Development 64 Rohr, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai 18.8 avg Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH 18.8 avg Swagelok Company 18.8 avg Motorola Mobility LLC 18.8 avg

Stripe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Stripe, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	2.5%
2018	5	2.1%
2019	9	3.8%
2020	4	1.7%
2021	14	5.9%
2022	24	10.1%
2023	60	25.2%
2024	49	20.6%
2025partial year	67	28.2%

Which technologies does Stripe, 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 148

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 116

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 68

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 27

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 14

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 14

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 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

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

Stripe, 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,), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,719 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stripe, Inc. against Children's Hospital Medical Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.3/100 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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