Where does Uber Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Uber Technologies, Inc. ranks #471 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 Uber Technologies, Inc. hold?

Uber Technologies, Inc. holds 941 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Uber Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Uber Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Uber Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Uber Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Uber Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Uber Technologies, 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

Uber Technologies, Inc.

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

Uber Technologies, 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 395 patents, ranking #43 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 941 granted patents across 85 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, Uber ranks #471 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 941 patents across 85 technology areas.

#471
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.5/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R471 · US Corporation #471 · 941 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 941 grants
TOP-DECILE #471/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Midea Group
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 85 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Midea Group Co., Ltd. (±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 Uber’s 64.5 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 23.7 pts (37%) Velocity 4.6 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Southeast University · near

64
The Swatch Group… · near

64
Uber · this assignee

64
Research & Business… · near

64
ROM · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Uber's Innovation Score is 64.5/100 (top 2% 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 Uber?

Each dot is one of Uber’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). Uber’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Uber's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Uber Technologies, Inc. received 501 grants versus 389 in 2015–2019 (+29% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 174 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 9. Lead class G06Q accounts for 42% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd. (#467) and Lumileds LLC (#475).

Uber's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Uber Technologies, Inc. moved from 398 to 277 grants (0.70x 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 #2,165. See the growth leaderboard.

AAC Pte

946
Hand Held Products

946
NCR

942
Midea Group

941
Uber ◀

941
Agency FOR Scienc…

939
Fujikura

933
Wacom

933
Lumileds

930

What this shows Uber holds 941 patents at rank #471, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Uber

By rank, the assignees closest to #471 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Uber, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Uber ranks #43 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd 64 Southeast University 64 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 64 ROM Technologies, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Polycom, LLC 18.6 avg Roblox Corporation 18.6 avg Parade Technologies, Ltd. 18.6 avg Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. 18.6 avg

Uber's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Uber Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	1.0%
2016	21	2.2%
2017	58	6.2%
2018	127	13.5%
2019	174	18.5%
2020	115	12.2%
2021	109	11.6%
2022	94	10.0%
2023	101	10.7%
2024	82	8.7%
2025partial year	51	5.4%

Which technologies does Uber Technologies, 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 395

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 314

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 309

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 236

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 230

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 196

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 175

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 134

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 94

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 86

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 63

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 47

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 45

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 39

H04B - Transmission 36

Top 15 of 85 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

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

Uber Technologies, 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,), 42% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #471 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Uber Technologies, Inc. against AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.5/100 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

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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