Where does Kwai Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kwai Inc. ranks #24,675 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 Kwai Inc. hold?

Kwai Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Kwai Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kwai Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kwai Inc. focus on?

Kwai Inc.'s top technology area is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models) with 7 patents, ranking #1,082 of 4,479 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Kwai Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Kwai Inc.'s patents?

Kwai Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Kwai 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 US Corporation

Kwai Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kwai ranks #24,675 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 7 technology areas.

#24,675
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24675 · US Corporation #24,675 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,675/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kadant
CPC-NARROW G06N · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kadant 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 Kwai’s 48.9 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 8.6 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 9.4 pts (19%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kwai · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kwai's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 Kwai?

Each dot is one of Kwai’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). Kwai’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kwai's grants concentrate

Kwai Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, Kwai sits between Koyo Machine Industries Co., Ltd. and Kadant Inc..

Kwai's three-year grant acceleration

Kwai Inc. shows 9 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.

Koyo Machine Indu…

11
KP Medcure

11
Kriwan Industrie-…

11
Kverneland Group…

11
KYB Motorcycle Su…

11
Kyoyu Agri

11
Kyung Dong ONE

11
Kadant

11
Kwai ◀

11

What this shows Kwai holds 11 patents at rank #24,646, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kwai

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,646 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Mo…)

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

Kwai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kwai Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	5	45.5%
2024	4	36.4%
2025partial year	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Kwai Inc. patent most?

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Kwai Inc.'s lead technology class is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06N
Ranked #24,675 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kwai Inc. against Koyo Machine Industries Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.