Company Analysis

PRA Group, Inc. (PRAA)

Nasdaq: PRAA · Short-Term Business Credit Institutions · Norfolk, VA · filing with the SEC since 2002
Grade4.5
◀ Past 5.2● Present 4.4▶ Future 3.3
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

1 patent granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to PRA Group, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
1
1 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
2
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a former name, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'14'15
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
1 published
PRA Group, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jul 1, 20148,768,797Systems, methods and computer program products that facilitate matching of debtor payments to collection authority accountsIT methods for managementPortfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Aug 27, 20152015/0239429Vehicle Immobilizing Devices, Systems, and MethodsIT methods for managementPRA Group, Inc.
May 22, 20142014/0143101SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS THAT FACILITATE MATCHING OF DEBTOR PAYMENTS TO COLLECTION AUTHORITY ACCOUNTSIT methods for managementPortfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. · patent 8,768,797 granted from it

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton PRAA · research, not advice