Where does Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. ranks #3,496 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 Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. hold?

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 60.3 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +1700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.7 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 Guangzhou Automobile Group 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. focus on?

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s top technology area 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 Control OF A Particular Sub-unit) with 33 patents. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Guangzhou ranks #3,496 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 50 technology areas.

#3,496
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.3/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +1700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3496 · Foreign Corporation #3,496 · 105 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,496/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dionex
CPC-WIDE B60W · 50 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dionex Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Khalifa University… · near

60
University OF Wyoming · near

60
Avalara · near

60
Guangzhou Automobile… · this assignee

60
Israel Aerospace… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Guangzhou's Innovation Score is 60.3/100 (top 3% 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.

How Guangzhou's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. received 90 grants versus 5 in 2015–2019 (+1700% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 23 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class B60W accounts for 31.4% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dionex Corporation (#3,492) and Imperva, Inc. (#3,500).

Guangzhou's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. moved from 34 to 59 grants (1.74x 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 #301. See the growth leaderboard.

Dionex

105
Fiskars Brands

105
Genband US

105
Great Wall Motor

105
HCT Group Holdings

105
Hewlett-packard I…

105
Hyundai Kefico

105
Imperva

105
Guangzhou Automob… ◀

105

What this shows Guangzhou holds 105 patents at rank #3,496, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Guangzhou

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,496 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 Guangzhou's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Guangzhou, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Avalara, Inc. 60 Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. 60 University OF Wyoming 60 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Unirac, Inc. 12.7 avg Casale SA 12.7 avg Sigmastar Technology Ltd. 12.7 avg Dexerials Corporation 12.7 avg

Guangzhou's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.0%
2018	1	1.0%
2019	3	2.9%
2020	19	18.1%
2021	12	11.4%
2022	23	21.9%
2023	17	16.2%
2024	19	18.1%
2025partial year	10	9.5%

Which technologies does Guangzhou Automobile Group 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 33

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 24

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 13

F16H - Gearing 12

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 11

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

Top 15 of 50 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,496

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Guangzhou Automobile Group 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), 31.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #3,496 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. against Dionex Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.3/100 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

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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

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