Where does Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited ranks #15,880 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 Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited hold?

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's Innovation Score?

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's recent grant velocity is +1600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's patents?

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's patents average 17.7 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 Cainiao Smart Logistics 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

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited

Q: What technology areas does Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited focus on?

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's top technology area is 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) with 11 patents, ranking #1,164 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cainiao ranks #15,880 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 23 technology areas.

#15,880
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +1600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15880 · Foreign Corporation #15,880 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,880/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Building Robotics
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Building Robotics, Inc. (±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 Cainiao’s 44.4 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 10.2 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 17.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Cainiao Smart… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Cainiao's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Cainiao?

Each dot is one of Cainiao’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). Cainiao’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cainiao's grants concentrate

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 61.1% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Cainiao sits between Building Robotics, Inc. and Celine.

Cainiao's three-year grant acceleration

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Building Robotics

18
Burndy

18
Byondis B V

18
Caimi Brevetti S…

18
Carestream Dental…

18
Cartiva

18
Celadon Systems

18
Celine

18
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18

What this shows Cainiao holds 18 patents at rank #15,879, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cainiao

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,879 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Cainiao's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	5.6%
2020	5	27.8%
2021	3	16.7%
2022	3	16.7%
2023	1	5.6%
2024	5	27.8%

Which technologies does Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited patent most?

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 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

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

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 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

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 61.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #15,880 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Limited against Building Robotics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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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