Where does Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. ranks #2,973 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 Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. hold?

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +1175% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'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 Netease (HANGZHOU) Network 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

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. focus on?

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 98 patents, ranking #25 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Netease ranks #2,973 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 16 technology areas.

#2,973
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +1175%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2973 · Foreign Corporation #2,973 · 128 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,973/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH K&N Engineering
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1175% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: K&N Engineering, 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 Netease’s 52.9 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 16.8 pts (32%) Velocity 11.3 pts (21%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
El · near

53
Foundation Medicine · near

53
Japan Agency FOR… · near

53
Netease (HANGZHOU)… · this assignee

53
Outotec (FINLAND) OY · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Netease's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Netease?

Each dot is one of Netease’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). Netease’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Netease's grants concentrate

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 76.6% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (29 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Netease sits between K&N Engineering, Inc. and Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd..

Netease's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. moved from 40 to 68 grants (1.70x 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 #311. See the growth leaderboard.

K&N Engineering

128
Luminar

128
Microtech Knives

128
NCR Voyix

128
New England Biola…

128
Radio Systems

128
Resonant

128
Shanghai Bilibili…

128
Netease (Hangzhou… ◀

128

What this shows Netease holds 128 patents at rank #2,973, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Netease

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,973 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Netease, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Netease ranks #25 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Outotec (FINLAND) OY 53 Japan Agency FOR Marine-earth Science AND Technology 53 Foundation Medicine, Inc. 53 El Electronics LLC 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Bard Access Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America 17.7 avg The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology 17.7 avg Zynga Inc. 17.7 avg

Netease's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.8%
2018	1	0.8%
2019	6	4.7%
2020	20	15.6%
2021	14	10.9%
2022	29	22.7%
2023	18	14.1%
2024	21	16.4%
2025partial year	18	14.1%

Which technologies does Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 98

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 55

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

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 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

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

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

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 76.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #2,973 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. against K&N Engineering, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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