Where does Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited ranks #263 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 Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited hold?

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited holds 1,618 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 111 technology areas.

What is Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's Innovation Score?

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited has an Innovation Score of 66.4 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%).

What technology areas does Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited focus on?

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 714 patents. Grants appear in 111 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's patents?

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's patents average 13.3 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 Lenovo (BEIJING) 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

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,618 granted patents across 111 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lenovo ranks #263 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,618 patents across 111 technology areas.

#263
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.4/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R263 · Foreign Corporation #263 · 1,618 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #263/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Stryker
CPC-WIDE G06F · 111 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stryker Corporation (±1 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
Lenovo (BEIJING) · this assignee

66
Starkey Laboratories · near

66
Abiomed · near

66
Disney Enterprises · near

66
Raytheon · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lenovo's Innovation Score is 66.4/100 (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.

How Lenovo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited received 616 grants versus 794 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 250 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 56. Lead class G06F accounts for 44.1% of the portfolio across 111 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Au Optronics Corporation (#259) and Kohler Co. (#267).

Lenovo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited moved from 344 to 406 grants (1.18x 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 #816. See the growth leaderboard.

Au Optronics

1,648
NGK Insulators

1,631
Rambus

1,626
Stryker

1,619
Lenovo (Beijing) ◀

1,618
Hamamatsu Photoni…

1,615
Ecolab USA

1,610
Nitto Denko

1,608
Kohler

1,594

What this shows Lenovo holds 1,618 patents at rank #263, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lenovo

By rank, the assignees closest to #263 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Starkey Laboratories, Inc. 66 Disney Enterprises, Inc. 66 Raytheon Technologies Corporation 66 Abiomed, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

British Telecommunications public limited company 13.3 avg Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 13.3 avg Avent, Inc. 13.3 avg BL Technologies, Inc. 13.3 avg

Lenovo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	56	3.5%
2016	187	11.6%
2017	250	15.5%
2018	167	10.3%
2019	134	8.3%
2020	120	7.4%
2021	90	5.6%
2022	129	8.0%
2023	102	6.3%
2024	175	10.8%
2025partial year	208	12.9%

Which technologies does Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 714

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 334

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 267

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 162

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 136

H04M - Telephonic Communication 98

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 78

H04B - Transmission 76

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 75

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 65

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 54

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 51

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 36

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 32

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 29

Top 15 of 111 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#263

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.4 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

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 44.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #263 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited against Au Optronics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.4/100 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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