Where does Visa U.S.A. Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Visa U.S.A. Inc. ranks #2,800 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 Visa U.S.A. Inc. hold?

Visa U.S.A. Inc. holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Visa U.S.A. Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -66% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s patents?

Visa U.S.A. 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 Visa U.S.A. 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

Visa U.S.A. Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Visa U.S.A. Inc. focus on?

Visa U.S.A. 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 134 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Visa ranks #2,800 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 14 technology areas.

#2,800
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2800 · US Corporation #2,800 · 138 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,800/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safran Aero Boosters
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safran Aero Boosters (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
3form · near

43
Angel Playing Cards · near

43
Ferno-Washington · near

43
Uptake · near

43
Visa U · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Visa's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 30% 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.

Where Visa's grants concentrate

Visa U.S.A. Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 97.1% 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 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Visa sits between Safran Aero Boosters and GKN Automotive Limited.

Visa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Visa U.S.A. Inc. moved from 42 to 9 grants (0.21x 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 #3,077. See the growth leaderboard.

Safran Aero Boost…

138
Saipem S P A

138
Sandvik Mining an…

138
Umicore

138
Young Optics

138
Visa U ◀

138
Chervon (HK)

137
Federal-mogul

137
GKN Automotive

137

What this shows Visa holds 138 patents at rank #2,800, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Visa

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,800 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. 43 3form, LLC 43 Ferno-Washington, Inc. 43 Uptake Technologies, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

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

OneSubsea IP UK Limited 18.6 avg Tenneco Automotive Operating Company LLC 18.6 avg THE University OF Liverpool 18.6 avg Wickr Inc. 18.6 avg

Visa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Visa U.S.A. Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	17.4%
2016	19	13.8%
2017	24	17.4%
2018	20	14.5%
2019	16	11.6%
2020	16	11.6%
2021	10	7.2%
2022	4	2.9%
2023	2	1.4%
2024	3	2.2%

Which technologies does Visa U.S.A. 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 134

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 37

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 9

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

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 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,800

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.9 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

Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Visa U.S.A. 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,), 97.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,800 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Visa U.S.A. Inc. against Safran Aero Boosters, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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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