Where does Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd ranks #8,737 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 Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd hold?

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's Innovation Score?

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd has an Innovation Score of 57.6 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd focus on?

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 20 patents, ranking #2,074 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.

What does claim depth mean for Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's patents?

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's patents average 18.3 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 Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd 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 Foreign Corporation

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alibaba ranks #8,737 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 16 technology areas.

#8,737
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8737 · Foreign Corporation #8,737 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,737/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acciona Windpower
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acciona Windpower, S.A. (±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 Alibaba’s 57.6 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 12.5 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 14.1 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alibaba (China) · this assignee

58
Insulet · near

58
Kitty Hawk · near

58
Toyota Tsusho · near

58
Northwestern… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alibaba's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (top 5% 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 Alibaba?

Each dot is one of Alibaba’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). Alibaba’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Alibaba's grants concentrate

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2023. By volume, Alibaba sits between ATC Technologies, LLC and Aortic Innovations, LLC.

Alibaba's three-year grant acceleration

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

ATC

36
Acciona Windpower

36
Airwair Internati…

36
Albany Internatio…

36
Amcor

36
American Lithium…

36
Amphenol East Asi…

36
Aortic Innovations

36
Alibaba (China) ◀

36

What this shows Alibaba holds 36 patents at rank #8,740, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alibaba

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,740 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alibaba, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Alibaba ranks #2,074 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Toyota Tsusho Corporation 58 Insulet Corporation 58 Kitty Hawk Corporation 58 Northwestern Polytechnical University 58

Alibaba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	5	13.9%
2024	10	27.8%
2025partial year	21	58.3%

Which technologies does Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 1

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

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #8,737 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd against ATC Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.