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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TrueCar, Inc. ranks #4,537 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 TrueCar, Inc. hold?

TrueCar, Inc. holds 78 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is TrueCar, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

TrueCar, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

TrueCar, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +6% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

TrueCar, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 TrueCar, 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

TrueCar, Inc.

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

TrueCar, 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 77 patents, ranking #191 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 78 granted patents across 4 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, Truecar ranks #4,537 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 78 patents across 4 technology areas.

#4,537
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4537 · US Corporation #4,537 · 78 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 78 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,537/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SiFive
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SiFive, 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 Truecar’s 39.1 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 15.1 pts (39%) Velocity 5.3 pts (14%) Breadth 7.1 pts (18%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bently Nevada · near

39
Crystal Lagoons… · near

39
NewLeaf Symbiotics · near

39
TEH YOR · near

39
TrueCar · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Truecar's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Truecar?

Each dot is one of Truecar’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). Truecar’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Truecar's grants concentrate

TrueCar, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 98.7% 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 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Truecar sits between SiFive, Inc. and VueReal Inc..

Truecar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, TrueCar, Inc. moved from 29 to 23 grants (0.79x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Signal Pharmaceut…

78
Teledyne Instrume…

78
Tendyne Holdings

78
Universitat Stutt…

78
University of Lou…

78
Valtech Cardio

78
Vuereal

78
Truecar ◀

78

What this shows TrueCar holds 78 patents at rank #4,537, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TrueCar

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,537 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for TrueCar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), TrueCar ranks #191 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

TEH YOR Co., Ltd. 39 Bently Nevada, LLC 39 NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. 39 Crystal Lagoons (CURACAO) B.V. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Glaukos Corporation 19.4 avg Cyberlink Corp. 19.4 avg CaaStle, Inc 19.4 avg Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd. 19.4 avg

Truecar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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TrueCar, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.0%
2016	1	1.3%
2017	8	10.3%
2018	4	5.1%
2019	15	19.2%
2020	8	10.3%
2021	6	7.7%
2022	9	11.5%
2023	8	10.3%
2024	6	7.7%
2025partial year	6	7.7%

Which technologies does TrueCar, 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 77

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 4 of 4 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

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

TrueCar, 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,), 98.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,537 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TrueCar, Inc. against SiFive, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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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