Where does Pony AI Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pony AI Inc. ranks #2,160 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 Pony AI Inc. hold?

Pony AI Inc. holds 183 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Pony AI Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pony AI Inc. has an Innovation Score of 69.8 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%).

Is Pony AI Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pony AI Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +5633% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Pony AI Inc.'s patents?

Pony AI Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Pony AI Inc. 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

Pony AI Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Pony AI Inc. focus on?

Pony AI Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 73 patents. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 183 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pony ranks #2,160 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 58 technology areas.

#2,160
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.8/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +5633%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2160 · Foreign Corporation #2,160 · 183 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 183 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,160/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Koninklijke Douwe…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 58 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +5633% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (±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
LG Innotek · near

70
Blue Origin · near

70
Pony AI · this assignee

70
Seoul Viosys · near

70
Joby Aero · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pony's Innovation Score is 69.8/100 (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 Pony's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Pony AI Inc. received 172 grants versus 3 in 2015–2019 (+5633% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 53 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 3. Lead class G01S accounts for 39.9% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (#2,156) and Coopper Tire & Rubber Company (#2,164).

Pony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pony AI Inc. moved from 52 to 123 grants (2.37x 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 #139. See the growth leaderboard.

Koninklijke Douwe…

183
Montres Breguet

183
National Cancer C…

183
Panasonic Healthc…

183
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

183
Pony AI ◀

183
American Greetings

182
Beijing Qihoo Tec…

182
Coopper Tire & Ru…

182

What this shows Pony holds 183 patents at rank #2,160, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pony

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,160 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pony, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. 70 Blue Origin, LLC 70 LG Innotek Co., Ltd. 70 Joby Aero, Inc. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Enphase Energy, Inc. 18.3 avg Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg ZIH Corp. 18.3 avg Experian Information Solutions, Inc. 18.3 avg

Pony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Pony AI Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	1.6%
2020	31	16.9%
2021	18	9.8%
2022	43	23.5%
2023	53	29.0%
2024	27	14.8%
2025partial year	8	4.4%

Which technologies does Pony AI Inc. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 73

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 61

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 56

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 42

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 26

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 23

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 17

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 16

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 15

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,160

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

69.8 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

Pony AI Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pony AI Inc.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 39.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,160 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pony AI Inc. against Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.8/100 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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