Where does AutoChips Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AutoChips Inc. ranks #11,175 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 AutoChips Inc. hold?

AutoChips Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is AutoChips Inc.'s Innovation Score?

AutoChips Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.1 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does AutoChips Inc. focus on?

AutoChips Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 12 patents, ranking #3,141 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is AutoChips Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AutoChips Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -31% 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 AutoChips Inc.'s patents?

AutoChips Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 AutoChips Inc. 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

AutoChips Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Autochips ranks #11,175 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 23 technology areas.

#11,175
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.1/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11175 · Foreign Corporation #11,175 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,175/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ArianeGroup
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ArianeGroup GmbH (±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 Autochips’s 38.1 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 11.5 pts (30%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 17.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ArthroCare · near

38
AutoChips · this assignee

38
Gurunavi · near

38
Sky CP · near

38
Unanimous A I · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Autochips's Innovation Score is 38.1/100 (top 42% 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 Autochips?

Each dot is one of Autochips’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). Autochips’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Autochips's grants concentrate

AutoChips Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Autochips sits between ArianeGroup GmbH and Bitmain Technologies Inc..

Autochips's three-year grant acceleration

AutoChips Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Arianegroup

27
Asetek Danmark A/S

27
Asia Connection

27
Athalonz

27
Automated Packagi…

27
Avalon Holographi…

27
Bellwether

27
Bitmain

27
Autochips ◀

27

What this shows AutoChips holds 27 patents at rank #11,174, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AutoChips

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,174 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for AutoChips, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), AutoChips ranks #3,141 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Sky CP Limited 38 Gurunavi, Inc. 38 Unanimous A. I., Inc. 38 ArthroCare Corporation 38

Autochips's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

AutoChips Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2016	1	3.7%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	2	7.4%
2019	8	29.6%
2020	6	22.2%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	1	3.7%
2024	1	3.7%

Which technologies does AutoChips Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

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

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

H04B - Transmission 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

Top 15 of 23 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

AutoChips Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AutoChips Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #11,175 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AutoChips Inc. against ArianeGroup GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.1/100 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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