Where does Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. ranks #1,714 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 Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. hold?

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. holds 238 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 67.9 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 Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. focus on?

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 176 patents, ranking #351 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 238 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alipay ranks #1,714 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 238 patents across 25 technology areas.

#1,714
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.9/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1714 · Foreign Corporation #1,714 · 238 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 238 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,714/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Children's Hospital…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 25 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Children's Hospital Medical Center (±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 Alipay’s 67.9 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 18.9 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 17.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BlackBerry · near

68
Advanced Semiconduct… · near

68
L'Oreal · near

68
Alipay (Hangzhou)… · this assignee

68
Nikon · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alipay's Innovation Score is 67.9/100 (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 Alipay?

Each dot is one of Alipay’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). Alipay’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Alipay's grants concentrate

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 73.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (141 grants) versus a trough of 14 in 2024. By volume, Alipay sits between Nikkiso Co., Ltd. and Physio-control, Inc..

Alipay's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. moved from 38 to 178 grants (4.68x 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 #32. See the growth leaderboard.

Nikkiso

239
Theravance Biopha…

239
Vorwerk & Interho…

239
ZKW Group

239
Children's Hospit…

238
KING COM

238
LX Semicon

238
Physio-control

238
Alipay (Hangzhou)… ◀

238

What this shows Alipay holds 238 patents at rank #1,714, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alipay

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,714 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alipay, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Alipay ranks #351 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 68 L'Oreal 68 Nikon Corporation 68 BlackBerry Limited 68

Similar claim depth

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

SAF-Holland, Inc. 18.8 avg Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. 18.8 avg The University Of Queensland 18.8 avg Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. 18.8 avg

Alipay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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 · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	38	16.0%
2022	141	59.2%
2023	23	9.7%
2024	14	5.9%
2025partial year	22	9.2%

Which technologies does Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 176

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 151

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 78

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

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 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 73.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,714 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. against Nikkiso Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.9/100 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

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.