Where does Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. ranks #5,236 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 Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. hold?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 66 technology areas.

What is Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 68.4 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 Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. focus on?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 11 patents, ranking #332 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 66 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 66 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #5,236 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 66 technology areas.

#5,236
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.4/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5236 · Foreign Corporation #5,236 · 66 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,236/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mobius Imaging
CPC-WIDE B60R · 66 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mobius Imaging, LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rambus · near

68
Cochlear · near

68
Ningbo Geely… · this assignee

68
Express Scripts… · near

68
Imperial College… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ningbo's Innovation Score is 68.4/100 (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 Ningbo's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2024–2025. Lead class B60R accounts for 16.7% of the portfolio across 66 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mobius Imaging, LLC (#5,232) and Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (#5,240).

Ningbo's three-year grant acceleration

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. shows 43 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.

Mobius Imaging

66
Netlist

66
New Audio

66
Nexeon

66
Orbis

66
Orthosoft ULC

66
Pcms Holdings

66
Photonics Technol…

66
Ningbo Geely Auto… ◀

66

What this shows Ningbo holds 66 patents at rank #5,236, 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 #5,236 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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 B60R (Vehicles), Ningbo ranks #332 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Cochlear Limited 68 Rambus Inc. 68 Imperial College Innovations Ltd 68 Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Physik Instrumente (PI) GMBH & Co. KG 14.9 avg Transitions Optical, Ltd. 14.9 avg Orion Energy Systems, Inc. 14.9 avg Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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 · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	43	65.2%
2025partial year	23	34.8%

Which technologies does Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 10

F16H - Gearing 9

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 8

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 5

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 5

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

Top 15 of 66 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,236

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.4 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

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #5,236 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. against Mobius Imaging, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.4/100 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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