Where does Ningbo Futai Electric Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ningbo Futai Electric Limited ranks #6,683 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 Ningbo Futai Electric Limited hold?

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's Innovation Score?

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's recent grant velocity is +88% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's patents?

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's patents average 4.3 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 Ningbo Futai Electric 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

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited

Q: What technology areas does Ningbo Futai Electric Limited focus on?

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 13 patents, ranking #203 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 12 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #6,683 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 12 technology areas.

#6,683
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 4.3
avg claims per patent: +88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6683 · Foreign Corporation #6,683 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,683/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lamb Weston
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lamb Weston, 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 29.2 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 13.6 pts (47%) Velocity 0.8 pts (3%) Breadth 12.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 2.6 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CobraTec Knives · near

29
Ningbo Futai Electric · this assignee

29
Shenzhen Xiaozhai… · near

29
Syntheon 2 0 · near

29
World Champion Fantasy · near

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ningbo's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th percentile 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 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 4.3 claims/patent is at or below the 11.4 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.

Where Ningbo's grants concentrate

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 26% of grants classified under F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Ningbo sits between Lamb Weston, Inc. and Navajo Manufacturing Company, Inc..

Ningbo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ningbo Futai Electric Limited moved from 34 to 4 grants (0.12x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Lamb Weston

50
Loci Controls

50
Mftb Holdco

50
Montage Technology

50
Ningbo Institute…

50
Nippon Shinyaku

50
NUC

50
Navajo Manufactur…

50
Ningbo Futai Elec… ◀

50

What this shows Ningbo holds 50 patents at rank #6,678, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ningbo

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,678 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ningbo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Ningbo ranks #203 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

CobraTec Knives, LLC 29 Shenzhen Xiaozhai Technology Co., Ltd. 29 World Champion Fantasy Inc. 29 Syntheon 2.0, LLC 29

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.3 here).

Reckitt Benckiser (Brands) Limited 4.3 avg Schneider Electric (Australia) Pty Ltd 4.3 avg GC Corporation 4.3 avg b.box for kids developments Pty Ltd 4.3 avg

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% 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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Ningbo Futai Electric Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.0%
2018	6	12.0%
2019	8	16.0%
2020	11	22.0%
2021	15	30.0%
2022	2	4.0%
2024	2	4.0%
2025partial year	4	8.0%

Which technologies does Ningbo Futai Electric Limited patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 10

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 9

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 12 of 12 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 Futai Electric Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ningbo Futai Electric Limited's lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 26% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #6,683 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ningbo Futai Electric Limited against Lamb Weston, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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

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

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