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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toast, Inc. ranks #5,252 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 Toast, Inc. hold?

Toast, Inc. holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Toast, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toast, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.4 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Toast, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1967% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Toast, Inc.'s patents average 15.2 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 Toast, 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

Toast, Inc.

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

Toast, 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 53 patents, ranking #271 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Toast ranks #5,252 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 12 technology areas.

#5,252
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +1967%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5252 · US Corporation #5,252 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,252/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Takeda Vaccines
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1967% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Takeda Vaccines, 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 Toast’s 40.4 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 14.5 pts (36%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Spectra Logic · near

40
Sport Maska · near

40
Taser International · near

40
Toast · this assignee

40
Valent Biosciences · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toast's Innovation Score is 40.4/100 (top 36% 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 Toast?

Each dot is one of Toast’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). Toast’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Toast's grants concentrate

Toast, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 80.3% 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 2021 (24 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Toast sits between TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. and Xidian University.

Toast's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toast, Inc. moved from 39 to 26 grants (0.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

TPK Advanced Solu…

66
Trek Bicycle

66
Takeda Vaccines

66
Theranos IP

66
University of Pue…

66
Urschel Laborator…

66
Xiamen Hithium En…

66
Xidian University

66
Toast ◀

66

What this shows Toast holds 66 patents at rank #5,254, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toast

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,254 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toast, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Toast ranks #271 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Taser International, Inc. 40 Valent Biosciences LLC 40 Spectra Logic Corporation 40 Sport Maska Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

L&L Candle Company, LLC 15.2 avg Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd 15.2 avg Owen Mumford Limited 15.2 avg The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd 15.2 avg

Toast's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Toast, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	4.5%
2020	12	18.2%
2021	24	36.4%
2022	11	16.7%
2023	10	15.2%
2024	5	7.6%
2025partial year	1	1.5%

Which technologies does Toast, 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 53

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

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

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 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

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Top 12 of 12 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

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

Toast, 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,), 80.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #5,252 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toast, Inc. against TPK Advanced Solutions Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.4/100 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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