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Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd.

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.

How Ningbo’s 59.7 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 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.

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 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 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 159.9159.9160160.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. - 160, 17.74Karl Storz ImagingMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited - 160, 6.2Mitsubishi PencilMujin, Inc. - 160, 18.76MujinMonolithic Power Systems, Inc. - 160, 16.04Monolithic Power…Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan - 160, 15.03Nuvoton Technolog…Qomplx LLC - 160, 10.97QomplxRolex SA - 160, 21.43RolexSybase, Inc. - 160, 19.61SybaseNingbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. - 160, 11.49Ningbo Geely Auto…
Ningbo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

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.

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 160 patents at rank #2,446, 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 #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). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Ningbo ranks #240 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

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

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 · 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?

Top 15 of 78 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 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

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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

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.