Where does Alibaba Group Holding Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alibaba Group Holding Limited ranks #169 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 Group Holding Limited hold?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited holds 2,299 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 83 technology areas.

What is Alibaba Group Holding Limited's Innovation Score?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited has an Innovation Score of 65.9 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%).

What technology areas does Alibaba Group Holding Limited focus on?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,437 patents, ranking #51 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 83 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's recent grant velocity is +106% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Alibaba Group Holding Limited's patents?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's patents average 18.8 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 Group Holding Limited 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 Group Holding Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,299 granted patents across 83 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alibaba ranks #169 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,299 patents across 83 technology areas.

#169
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.9/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +106%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R169 · Foreign Corporation #169 · 2,299 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #169/49,997
NEAR-PEER State Farm Mutual…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 83 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +106% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (±6 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 65.9 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 26.7 pts (41%) Velocity 2.9 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
iRobot · near

66
Robotic Research OpCo · near

66
Alibaba Group Holding · this assignee

66
Fisher-rosemount… · near

66
The Board of… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alibaba's Innovation Score is 65.9/100 (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 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 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 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.

How Alibaba's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Alibaba Group Holding Limited received 1,503 grants versus 730 in 2015–2019 (+106% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 740 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 66. Lead class G06F accounts for 62.5% of the portfolio across 83 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nikon Corporation (#165) and LG Energy Solution, Ltd. (#173).

Alibaba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alibaba Group Holding Limited moved from 1,250 to 541 grants (0.43x 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 #2,821. See the growth leaderboard.

Nikon

2,316
Eaton Intelligent…

2,308
Volkswagen Aktien…

2,307
State Farm Mutual…

2,305
Alibaba Group Hol… ◀

2,299
NTT Docomo

2,283
Hyundai Mobis

2,279
The Board of Trus…

2,275
LG Energy Solution

2,270

What this shows Alibaba holds 2,299 patents at rank #169, 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 #169 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 #51 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc. 66 Robotic Research OpCo, LLC 66 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 66 iRobot Corporation 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Motorola Mobility LLC 18.8 avg Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH 18.8 avg Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai 18.8 avg Stripe, Inc. 18.8 avg

Alibaba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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.

View data table

Alibaba Group Holding Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	66	2.9%
2016	103	4.5%
2017	131	5.7%
2018	142	6.2%
2019	288	12.5%
2020	740	32.2%
2021	222	9.7%
2022	244	10.6%
2023	172	7.5%
2024	125	5.4%
2025partial year	66	2.9%

Which technologies does Alibaba Group Holding Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,437

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 911

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 404

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 245

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 224

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 185

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 170

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 161

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 69

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 69

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 63

H04M - Telephonic Communication 54

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 35

H04B - Transmission 32

G11C - Static Stores 29

Top 15 of 83 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

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #169 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alibaba Group Holding Limited against Nikon Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.9/100 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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