Where does United Services Automobile Association (USAA) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United Services Automobile Association (USAA) ranks #152 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 United Services Automobile Association (USAA) hold?

United Services Automobile Association (USAA) holds 2,549 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 139 technology areas.

What is United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s Innovation Score?

United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has an Innovation Score of 73.0 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 United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s recent grant velocity is +199% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s patents?

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s patents average 18.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

Q: What technology areas does United Services Automobile Association (USAA) focus on?

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'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 1,272 patents. Grants appear in 139 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 2,549 granted patents across 139 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, United ranks #152 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,549 patents across 139 technology areas.

#152
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.0/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +199%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R152 · US Corporation #152 · 2,549 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #152/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Commscope
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 139 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +199% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Commscope Technologies LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Toyota Research… · near

73
Imam Abdulrahman… · near

73
Solventum Intellectu… · near

73
United Services… · this assignee

73
Atieva · near

73
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows United's Innovation Score is 73.0/100 (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.

How United's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, United Services Automobile Association (USAA) received 1,751 grants versus 586 in 2015–2019 (+199% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 456 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 60. Lead class G06Q accounts for 49.9% of the portfolio across 139 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Red Hat, Inc. (#148) and T-Mobile USA, Inc. (#156).

United's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, United Services Automobile Association (USAA) moved from 794 to 1,188 grants (1.50x 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 #452. See the growth leaderboard.

Red Hat

2,585
Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron

2,552
Commscope

2,550
United Services A… ◀

2,549
Schaeffler & KG

2,548
Nichia

2,544
Advanced Micro De…

2,513
T-mobile USA

2,513

What this shows United holds 2,549 patents at rank #152, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near United

By rank, the assignees closest to #152 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for United, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (73 here).

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company 73 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 73 Toyota Research Institute, Inc. 73 Atieva, Inc. 73

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

ArcelorMittal 18.3 avg Conduent Business Services, LLC 18.3 avg Woodward, Inc. 18.3 avg Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

73 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.

View data table

United Services Automobile Association (USAA) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	74	2.9%
2016	60	2.4%
2017	86	3.4%
2018	135	5.3%
2019	231	9.1%
2020	258	10.1%
2021	305	12.0%
2022	343	13.5%
2023	389	15.3%
2024	456	17.9%
2025partial year	212	8.3%

Which technologies does United Services Automobile Association (USAA) 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 1,272

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,031

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 736

H04M - Telephonic Communication 325

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 316

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 316

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 171

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 169

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 166

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 147

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 117

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 87

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 86

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 81

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 76

Top 15 of 139 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#152

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

73.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

United Services Automobile Association (USAA)'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,), 49.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #152 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United Services Automobile Association (USAA) against Red Hat, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.0/100 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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