Where does The Toronto-Dominion Bank rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Toronto-Dominion Bank ranks #595 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 Toronto-Dominion Bank hold?

The Toronto-Dominion Bank holds 748 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is The Toronto-Dominion Bank's Innovation Score?

The Toronto-Dominion Bank has an Innovation Score of 68.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Toronto-Dominion Bank's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Toronto-Dominion Bank's recent grant velocity is +607% 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 Toronto-Dominion Bank's patents?

The Toronto-Dominion Bank's patents average 19.7 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 The Toronto-Dominion 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 Foreign Corporation

The Toronto-Dominion Bank

Q: What technology areas does The Toronto-Dominion Bank focus on?

The Toronto-Dominion 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 463 patents, ranking #35 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 748 granted patents across 39 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 #595 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 748 patents across 39 technology areas.

#595
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.7/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +607%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R595 · Foreign Corporation #595 · 748 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 748 grants
TOP-DECILE #595/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Spigen Korea
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 39 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +607% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Spigen Korea Co., Ltd. (±1 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 68.7 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 22.9 pts (33%) Velocity 11.9 pts (17%) Breadth 22.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Whirlpool · near

69
Carefusion 303 · near

69
NIO Technology (ANHUI) · near

69
The Toronto-Dominion… · this assignee

69
Beijing Jingdong… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 68.7/100 (top 1% 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 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 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 Toronto-Dominion Bank is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 61.9% 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 (147 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, The sits between adidas AG and Zoll Medical Corporation.

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Toronto-Dominion Bank moved from 225 to 402 grants (1.79x 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 #276. See the growth leaderboard.

adidas

754
Medline Industries

753
Shenzhen Goodix T…

753
Spigen Korea

749
The Toronto-domin… ◀

748
Steering Solution…

747
Shanghai Tianma M…

743
Nuance Communicat…

740
Zoll Medical

740

What this shows The holds 748 patents at rank #595, 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 #595 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 #35 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

NIO Technology (ANHUI) Co., Ltd 69 Carefusion 303, Inc. 69 Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd. 69 Whirlpool Corporation 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation 19.7 avg Corning Research & Development Corporation 19.7 avg Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC 19.7 avg Alderbio Holdings LLC 19.7 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Toronto-Dominion Bank patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	0.5%
2017	10	1.3%
2018	13	1.7%
2019	54	7.2%
2020	75	10.0%
2021	96	12.8%
2022	128	17.1%
2023	127	17.0%
2024	147	19.7%
2025partial year	94	12.6%

Which technologies does The Toronto-Dominion 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 463

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 392

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 303

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 86

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 62

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 39

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 39

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 35

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 16

H04M - Telephonic Communication 11

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

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 5

Top 15 of 39 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 Toronto-Dominion Bank's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Toronto-Dominion 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,), 61.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #595 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Toronto-Dominion Bank against adidas AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.7/100 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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