Where does Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. ranks #2,653 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 66.9 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%).

Is Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.5 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

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.

Q: How many patents does Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. hold?

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

Q: How is the Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) 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 - 146 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apollo ranks #2,653 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,653
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.9/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2653 · Foreign Corporation #2,653 · 146 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,653/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Akzo Nobel Chemicals…
CPC-FOCUS B60W · 35 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V (±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 Apollo’s 66.9 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 17.2 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 20.9 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ZF Friedrichshafen · near

67
Apollo Intelligent… · this assignee

67
Beijing Dajia… · near

67
Delta · near

67
Macronix International · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apollo's Innovation Score is 66.9/100 (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 Apollo?

Each dot is one of Apollo’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). Apollo’s own 14.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Apollo's grants concentrate

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 43.2% of grants classified under B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (86 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2024. By volume, Apollo sits between Medtronic CryoCath LP and Brita LP.

Apollo's three-year grant acceleration

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. shows 140 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.

Medtronic Cryocath

147
Quest Software

147
Sage Products

147
Unison Industries

147
Assa Abloy Americ…

146
Akzo Nobel Chemic…

146
Alexion Pharmaceu…

146
Brita

146
Apollo Intelligen… ◀

146

What this shows Apollo holds 146 patents at rank #2,651, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apollo

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,651 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apollo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Apollo ranks #74 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd. 67 Macronix International Co., Ltd. 67 Delta Electronics, Inc. 67 ZF Friedrichshafen AG 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation 14.5 avg PTC Therapeutics, Inc. 14.5 avg Blue Cube IP LLC 14.5 avg Hongfujin Precision ELECTRONICS(TIANJIN)CO., Ltd. 14.5 avg

Apollo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	86	58.9%
2023	46	31.5%
2024	8	5.5%
2025partial year	6	4.1%

Which technologies does Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 63

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 56

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 54

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

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 35

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 24

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 23

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

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 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 8

Top 15 of 35 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

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #2,653 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. against Medtronic CryoCath LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.9/100 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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