Where does Saic Motor Corporation Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saic Motor Corporation Limited ranks #19,105 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 Saic Motor Corporation Limited hold?

Saic Motor Corporation Limited holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Saic Motor Corporation Limited's Innovation Score?

Saic Motor Corporation Limited has an Innovation Score of 54.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Saic Motor Corporation Limited focus on?

Saic Motor Corporation Limited's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 13 patents, ranking #458 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Saic Motor Corporation Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saic Motor Corporation Limited's recent grant velocity is -44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Saic Motor Corporation Limited's patents?

Saic Motor Corporation Limited'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 Saic Motor Corporation Limited 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

Saic Motor Corporation Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Saic ranks #19,105 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 16 technology areas.

#19,105
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19105 · Foreign Corporation #19,105 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,105/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RhinoSystems
CPC-FOCUS Y02T · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RhinoSystems, 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 Saic’s 54.7 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 9.6 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 14.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Saic Motor · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Saic's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (top 7% 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Saic?

Each dot is one of Saic’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). Saic’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Saic vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Saic's grants concentrate

Saic Motor Corporation Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 86.7% of grants classified under Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Saic sits between RhinoSystems, Inc. and SARcode Bioscience Inc..

Saic's three-year grant acceleration

Saic Motor Corporation Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Saic holds 15 patents at rank #19,099, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Saic

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,099 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Saic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Saic Motor Corporation Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	6.7%
2017	7	46.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	2	13.3%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Saic Motor Corporation Limited patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

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 10

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 7

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 7

F16H - Gearing 7

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 4

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 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Saic Motor Corporation Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saic Motor Corporation Limited's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 86.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #19,105 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saic Motor Corporation Limited against RhinoSystems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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

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.