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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. ranks #2,446 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

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

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +268% 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 Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.'s patents?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.'s patents average 11.5 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 & Development Co. Ltd.

Q: How many patents does Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. hold?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. holds 160 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. focus on?

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 30 patents. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development 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 - 160 granted patents across 78 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #2,446 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 160 patents across 78 technology areas.

#2,446
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: +268%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2446 · Foreign Corporation #2,446 · 160 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 160 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,446/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Karl Storz Imaging
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 78 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +268% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Karl Storz Imaging, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gpcp IP Holdings · near

60
Continental Teves &… · near

60
Extang · near

60
Government of the… · near

60
Ningbo Geely… · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ningbo's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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

Between 2020–2024, Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. received 114 grants versus 31 in 2015–2019 (+268% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 18.8% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. (#2,442) and Sybase, Inc. (#2,450).

Ningbo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. moved from 52 to 80 grants (1.54x 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 #421. See the growth leaderboard.

Karl Storz Imaging

160
Mitsubishi Pencil

160
Mujin

160
Monolithic Power…

160
Nuvoton Technolog…

160
Qomplx

160
Rolex

160
Sybase

160
Ningbo Geely Auto… ◀

160

What this shows Ningbo holds 160 patents at rank #2,446, 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 #2,446 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG 60 Extang Corporation 60 Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force 60 Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

SKC Co., Ltd. 11.5 avg BSH Home Appliances Corporation 11.5 avg Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation 11.5 avg Goodrich Actuation Systems SAS 11.5 avg

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	0.6%
2018	12	7.5%
2019	18	11.3%
2020	23	14.4%
2021	11	6.9%
2022	26	16.3%
2023	41	25.6%
2024	13	8.1%
2025partial year	15	9.4%

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 30

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 25

F16H - Gearing 20

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 15

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 14

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 14

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 13

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 10

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 10

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 8

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 7

Top 15 of 78 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,446

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.7 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 & Development Co. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 18.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,446 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. against Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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