Where does The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. ranks #2,995 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 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. hold?

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +378% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s patents?

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 The PNC Financial Services Group, 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

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. focus on?

The PNC Financial Services Group, 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 99 patents, ranking #150 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 9 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, The ranks #2,995 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 9 technology areas.

#2,995
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +378%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2995 · US Corporation #2,995 · 127 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,995/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kuka Deutschland
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +378% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kuka Deutschland GmbH (±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 The’s 57.5 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 16.8 pts (29%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 10.6 pts (18%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Primetals Austria · near

57
Karl Storz SE & KG · near

57
Nano and Advanced… · near

57
The PNC Financial… · this assignee

57
Toyobo · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 78% 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 (28 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, The sits between Kuka Deutschland GmbH and Vodafone IP Licensing Limited.

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. moved from 22 to 72 grants (3.27x 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 #69. See the growth leaderboard.

Kuka Deutschland

127
Kulite Semiconduc…

127
Taiho Kogyo

127
Tecan Trading

127
University OF Tsu…

127
UNM Rainforest In…

127
Universite Pierre…

127
Vodafone IP Licen…

127
The PNC Financial… ◀

127

What this shows The holds 127 patents at rank #2,995, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,995 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), The ranks #150 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited 57 Toyobo Co., Ltd. 57 Karl Storz SE & Co. KG 57 Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Novomatic AG 16.8 avg Quantcast Corporation 16.8 avg King's College London 16.8 avg Columbia Insurance Company 16.8 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	3.9%
2016	1	0.8%
2017	3	2.4%
2018	1	0.8%
2019	8	6.3%
2020	5	3.9%
2021	9	7.1%
2022	21	16.5%
2023	23	18.1%
2024	28	22.0%
2025partial year	23	18.1%

Which technologies does The PNC Financial Services Group, 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 99

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 82

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 38

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 7

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 7

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

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 9 of 9 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

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The PNC Financial Services Group, 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,), 78% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,995 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. against Kuka Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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

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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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