Where does Synchrony Bank rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Synchrony Bank ranks #4,796 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 Synchrony Bank hold?

Synchrony Bank holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Synchrony Bank's Innovation Score?

Synchrony Bank has an Innovation Score of 61.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Synchrony Bank's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Synchrony Bank.

What does claim depth mean for Synchrony Bank's patents?

Synchrony Bank's patents average 24.7 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 Synchrony Bank 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

Synchrony Bank

Q: What technology areas does Synchrony Bank focus on?

Synchrony Bank'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 55 patents, ranking #260 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Synchrony ranks #4,796 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 12 technology areas.

#4,796
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.9/100): 24.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4796 · US Corporation #4,796 · 73 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,796/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sequenom
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 12 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Faurecia Sièges… · near

62
Medtronic Xomed · near

62
Synchrony Bank · this assignee

62
NEC Of America · near

62
SeeScan · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Synchrony's Innovation Score is 61.9/100 (top 3% 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 Synchrony's grants concentrate

Synchrony Bank is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 75.3% 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 2024 (24 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Synchrony sits between SRC Corporation and Venus by Maria Tash, Inc..

Synchrony's three-year grant acceleration

Synchrony Bank shows 48 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

SRC

73
Stoneage

73
Sequenom

73
Staples

73
TD Ameritrade IP

73
Traeger Pellet Gr…

73
Vast Data

73
Venus by Maria Ta…

73
Synchrony Bank ◀

73

What this shows Synchrony holds 73 patents at rank #4,796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Synchrony

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,796 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Synchrony, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Synchrony ranks #260 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Faurecia Sièges d'Automobile 62 Medtronic Xomed, Inc. 62 NEC Corporation Of America 62 SeeScan, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.7 here).

Berkeley Lights, Inc. 24.7 avg AOB Products Company 24.7 avg Medivation Technologies LLC 24.8 avg Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 24.8 avg

Synchrony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Synchrony Bank patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	2.7%
2021	9	12.3%
2022	7	9.6%
2023	17	23.3%
2024	24	32.9%
2025partial year	14	19.2%

Which technologies does Synchrony Bank 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 55

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 15

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

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

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

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

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,796

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.9 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

Synchrony Bank's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Synchrony Bank'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,), 75.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,796 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Synchrony Bank against SRC Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.