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Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #13,082 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 3 technology areas.

#13,082
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100)
5.7
avg claims per patent
+275%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13082 · Foreign Corporation #13,082 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
  • MID-PACK #13,082/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH NanoString
  • CPC-NARROW A47J · 3 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +275% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NanoString Technologies, 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 Ningbo’s 40.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Ningbo

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Ningbo's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Ningbo?

Each dot is one of Ningbo’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). Ningbo’s own 5.7 claims/patent is at or below the 11.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Ningbo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 22.922.92323.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Nexchip Semiconductor Corporation - 23, 9.65Nexchip Semicondu…Nexdot - 23, 14.09NexdotNexite Ltd. - 23, 20.35NexiteNidec Motors & Actuators (GERMANY) GMBH - 23, 10.87Nidec Motors & Ac…Nixon, Inc. - 23, 3.17NixonNokian Renkaat OYJ - 23, 15.39Nokian Renkaat OYJNanoString Technologies, Inc. - 23, 26.22NanostringNational Formosa University - 23, 11.22National Formosa…Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. - 23, 5.7Ningbo Careline E…
Ningbo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Ningbo's grants concentrate

Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 39.1% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Ningbo sits between Nexchip Semiconductor Corporation and National Formosa University.

Ningbo's three-year grant acceleration

Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Who files at Ningbo's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Ningbo holds 23 patents at rank #13,069, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Ningbo

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,069 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2018 3 13.0%
2019 1 4.3%
2021 1 4.3%
2022 2 8.7%
2023 5 21.7%
2024 7 30.4%
2025partial year 4 17.4%

Which technologies does Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 3 of 3 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

Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 39.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
  • Ranked #13,082 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Ningbo Careline Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. against Nexchip Semiconductor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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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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

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.