Where does Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ranks #136 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 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. hold?

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. holds 2,773 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 89 technology areas.

What is Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s Innovation Score?

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. has an Innovation Score of 75.4 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 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s recent grant velocity is +627% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s patents?

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s patents average 18.4 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 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 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

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Q: What technology areas does Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. focus on?

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'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 1,697 patents, ranking #7 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 89 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,773 granted patents across 89 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, Wells ranks #136 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,773 patents across 89 technology areas.

#136
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (75.4/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +627%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R136 · US Corporation #136 · 2,773 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #136/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Salesforce com
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 89 areas
INNOV-STRONG 75.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +627% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Salesforce.com, 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 Wells’s 75.4 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 27.4 pts (36%) Velocity 11.9 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marathon Petroleum · near

76
Canon · near

76
Stryker European… · near

75
Wells Fargo Bank N A · this assignee

75
Hitachi Astemo · near

75
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wells's Innovation Score is 75.4/100 (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 Wells?

Each dot is one of Wells’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). Wells’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Wells's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. received 2,145 grants versus 295 in 2015–2019 (+627% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 537 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 11. Lead class G06Q accounts for 61.2% of the portfolio across 89 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (#132) and CNH Industrial America LLC (#140).

Wells's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. moved from 823 to 1,475 grants (1.79x 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 #273. See the growth leaderboard.

Comcast Cable Com…

2,828
Sony Semiconducto…

2,791
NXP B V

2,783
Salesforce com

2,773
Wells Fargo Bank… ◀

2,773
Fraunhofer-gesell…

2,763
Rohm

2,753
Audi

2,738
CNH Industrial Am…

2,690

What this shows Wells holds 2,773 patents at rank #136, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wells

By rank, the assignees closest to #136 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wells, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Wells ranks #7 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (75 here).

Stryker European Operations Limited 75 Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. 75 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 76 Marathon Petroleum Company LP 76

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 18.4 avg ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH 18.4 avg Zoox, Inc. 18.4 avg Bally Gaming, Inc. 18.4 avg

Wells's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

75 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.

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Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	0.4%
2016	18	0.6%
2017	38	1.4%
2018	75	2.7%
2019	153	5.5%
2020	281	10.1%
2021	389	14.0%
2022	406	14.6%
2023	537	19.4%
2024	532	19.2%
2025partial year	333	12.0%

Which technologies does Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 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 1,697

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,138

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,024

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 344

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 243

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 241

H04M - Telephonic Communication 126

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 119

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 112

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 102

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 87

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 44

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 30

H04B - Transmission 27

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 26

Top 15 of 89 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

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'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,), 61.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #136 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. against Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 75.4/100 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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