Where does Ants Technology (HK) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ants Technology (HK) Limited ranks #28,087 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 Ants Technology (HK) Limited hold?

Ants Technology (HK) Limited holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2021, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Ants Technology (HK) Limited's Innovation Score?

Ants Technology (HK) Limited has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ants Technology (HK) Limited focus on?

Ants Technology (HK) Limited's top technology area is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding) with 4 patents, ranking #1,858 of 5,108 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ants Technology (HK) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ants Technology (HK) Limited's recent grant velocity is -50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Ants Technology (HK) Limited's patents?

Ants Technology (HK) Limited's patents average 15.9 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 Ants Technology (HK) 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

Ants Technology (HK) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2021. 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: G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ants ranks #28,087 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 16 technology areas.

#28,087
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28087 · Foreign Corporation #28,087 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,087/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH American Future…
CPC-FOCUS G06V · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: American Future Technology (±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 Ants’s 31.6 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 8.0 pts (25%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ants Technology (HK) · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Ants's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (38th percentile 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 Ants?

Each dot is one of Ants’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). Ants’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ants's grants concentrate

Ants Technology (HK) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Ants sits between American Future Technology and APEX.AI, Inc..

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What this shows Ants holds 9 patents at rank #28,019, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ants

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,019 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding)

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

Ants's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ants Technology (HK) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	22.2%
2019	4	44.4%
2020	2	22.2%
2021	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Ants Technology (HK) Limited patent most?

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

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

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 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

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 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

Ants Technology (HK) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ants Technology (HK) Limited's lead technology class is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06V
Ranked #28,087 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ants Technology (HK) Limited against American Future Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.6/100 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

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