Is Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Government

Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences

Q: Where does Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences ranks #6,684 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 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 - 50 granted patents across 57 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: Y02E (REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #6,684 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 57 technology areas.

#6,684
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6684 · Foreign Government #6,684 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNGOV · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,684/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Loci Controls
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNGOV Foreign Gov
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Loci Controls, 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
Verizon Connect Deve… · near

61
Ningbo Institute OF… · this assignee

61
Sharp NEC Display So… · near

61
UOP · near

61
Xi'an Jiaotong Unive… · near

61
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-STRONG, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNGOV, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,684 of 50,000; Innovation Score 61.0/100 sits in the top 3% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Loci Controls, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences has been granted 50 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences at #6,684 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 57 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 11.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in Y02E (REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION). As a Foreign Government, Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Ningbo sits between Loci Controls, Inc. (50 patents, rank #6,675) and Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (50 patents, rank #6,683) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 61.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 28 grants, compared with 12 in the 2015–2019 window, a +133% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Government classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences's 11.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 57 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Loci Controls

50
MFTB Holdco

50
Montage Technology

50
Ningbo Futai Elec…

50
Nippon Shinyaku

50
NUC

50
Navajo Manufactur…

50
Neurocrine Biosci…

50
Ningbo Institute… ◀

50

What this shows Ningbo holds 50 patents at rank #6,679, 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 #6,679 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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 (61 here).

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. 61 Xi'an Jiaotong University 61 UOP Llc 61 Verizon Connect Development Limited 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Dwango Co., Ltd. 11.4 avg Grammer Ag 11.4 avg AGCO Corporation 11.4 avg Japan Display Inc. 11.4 avg

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 50,000 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 Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.0%
2016	1	2.0%
2017	1	2.0%
2018	7	14.0%
2019	2	4.0%
2020	4	8.0%
2021	3	6.0%
2022	9	18.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	7	14.0%
2025partial year	10	20.0%

Which technologies does Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent most?

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 12

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 10

C23C - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL 8

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 7

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 5

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 5

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 5

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 4

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 4

C01P - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 4

C01G - COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F 4

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 3

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 3

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,684

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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

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