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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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First Data — 665 Patents

Rank (All Time): #1,292 of 105,732Top 2%
729 inventors
Fortune 500 #332 (2019) · Inventor 500 →
665 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 57 patents in 2006.peak 571993: 5 patents19931994: 5 patents1996: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19982000: 8 patents2001: 7 patents2002: 7 patents20022003: 9 patents2004: 22 patents2005: 22 patents20052006: 57 patents2007: 37 patents2008: 52 patents20082009: 57 patents2010: 51 patents2011: 39 patents20112012: 24 patents2013: 34 patents2014: 38 patents20142015: 20 patents2016: 21 patents2017: 21 patents20172018: 19 patents2019: 23 patents2020: 20 patents20202021: 14 patents2022: 10 patents2023: 9 patents20232024: 13 patents2025: 6 patents2025

Top Inventors at First Data All Time

Showing 51–100 of 729 inventors

RankNamePatents
#51 Lynn Blagg 8
#52 Barbara Wilson Whiteside 8
#53 Christopher T. Cox 8
#54 Peter M. Karas 8
#55 Susan Fahy 8
#56 Roger Lynn Musfeldt 7
#57 Ken Algiene 7
#58 Charles A. Fillinger 7
#59 Henry Abelman 7
#60 Jerome Myers 7
#61 Mark Thompson 7
#62 Philip Mellinger 7
#63 Robert Degen 7
#64 Robert Edwin Dravenstott 7
#65 Theodore VanDeburg 7
#66 Santosh Kumar 7
#67 Hrishikesh Shashikant Karekar 7
#68 Jason Corbitt Gaskey 7
#69 Stephen Orlando Bozzone 7
#70 Henry T. Tsuei 7
#71 Susan Diane Brauckman 6
#72 Brian Friedman 6
#73 Matt F. Golub 6
#74 Lance Pate 6
#75 Jeff Nowlin 6
#76 J. Scott Sanchez 6
#77 Duane Ritter 6
#78 Mary Elizabeth Lawson 6
#79 Alan Jay Bethscheider 6
#80 David G. Weis 6
#81 David Walker 6
#82 Hanumant Bapurao Borate 6
#83 Mohan Anand Chandavarkar 6
#84 Kevin James 5
#85 Keith W. Diveley 5
#86 John Duncan 5
#87 Jeffrey Singleton 5
#88 James E. Cowell 5
#89 Hugh McCormack 5
#90 Daniel Skowronek 5
#91 Dan Skowronek 5
#92 Curtis Beeson 5
#93 Cheryl L. Neofytides 5
#94 Brian Prendergast 5
#95 Aamer Ali Baig 5
#96 Christina Provost 5
#97 Mark Edward Bowman 5
#98 Hans Daniel Dreyer 5
#99 David Francis Scavo 5
#100 Donald Hobday 5

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