Where does United States Postal Service rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United States Postal Service ranks #932 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 States Postal Service hold?

United States Postal Service holds 477 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 79 technology areas.

What is United States Postal Service's Innovation Score?

United States Postal Service has an Innovation Score of 65.4 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 States Postal Service's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United States Postal Service's recent grant velocity is +65% 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 States Postal Service's patents?

United States Postal Service's patents average 16.6 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 United States Postal Service 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

United States Postal Service

Q: What technology areas does United States Postal Service focus on?

United States Postal Service'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 219 patents, ranking #67 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 79 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 477 granted patents across 79 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 #932 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 477 patents across 79 technology areas.

#932
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.4/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R932 · US Corporation #932 · 477 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 477 grants
TOP-DECILE #932/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aristocrat
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 79 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (±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 United’s 65.4 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 21.3 pts (33%) Velocity 9.1 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Apollo Intelligent… · near

65
Omachron Intellectua… · near

65
United States… · this assignee

65
Hoffmann-La Roche · near

65
B/E Aerospace · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows United's Innovation Score is 65.4/100 (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 United?

Each dot is one of United’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). United’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How United's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, United States Postal Service received 272 grants versus 165 in 2015–2019 (+65% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 68 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 18. Lead class G06Q accounts for 45.9% of the portfolio across 79 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ConocoPhillips Company (#928) and Stratasys Ltd. (#936).

United's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, United States Postal Service moved from 137 to 187 grants (1.36x 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 #558. See the growth leaderboard.

Conocophillips

481
Schweitzer Engine…

480
The Penn State Re…

480
Aristocrat

478
United States Pos… ◀

477
Caterpillar Pavin…

476
Chicago Mercantil…

476
Nant Holdings IP

476
Stratasys

476

What this shows United holds 477 patents at rank #932, 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 #932 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). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), United ranks #67 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. 65 Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 65 Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (BEIJING) Technology Co., Ltd. 65 B/E Aerospace, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

InterDigital Technology Corporation 16.6 avg Alfa Laval Corporate AB 16.6 avg Thermo Finnigan LLC 16.6 avg Idemia France 16.6 avg

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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 States Postal Service patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	4.4%
2016	18	3.8%
2017	45	9.4%
2018	29	6.1%
2019	52	10.9%
2020	43	9.0%
2021	42	8.8%
2022	55	11.5%
2023	64	13.4%
2024	68	14.3%
2025partial year	40	8.4%

Which technologies does United States Postal Service 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 219

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 115

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 79

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 69

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 65

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 61

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 44

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 37

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 33

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 28

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 23

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 20

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 19

Top 15 of 79 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

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United States Postal Service'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,), 45.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #932 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United States Postal Service against ConocoPhillips Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.4/100 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

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