Where does Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. ranks #9,869 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 Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. hold?

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. focus on?

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 23 patents, ranking #41 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +3000% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.2 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 Shanghai Autoflight 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shanghai ranks #9,869 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 18 technology areas.

#9,869
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +3000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9869 · Foreign Corporation #9,869 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,869/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Santoku
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +3000% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Santoku Corporation (±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 Shanghai’s 53.2 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 12.1 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 15.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Security Enhancement… · near

53
University Hospitals… · near

53
Brewer Science · near

53
Shanghai Autoflight · this assignee

53
BTL Healthcare A S · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shanghai's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 Shanghai?

Each dot is one of Shanghai’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). Shanghai’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Shanghai's grants concentrate

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 71.9% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Shanghai sits between Santoku Corporation and Snipr Technologies Limited.

Shanghai's three-year grant acceleration

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. shows 30 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Santoku

32
Sapien Semiconduc…

32
Schneider Electri…

32
Sekisui House

32
Sinteff TTO AS

32
Smarter Microelec…

32
SMR Inventec

32
Snipr

32
Shanghai Autoflig… ◀

32

What this shows Shanghai holds 32 patents at rank #9,865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shanghai

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,865 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shanghai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Shanghai ranks #41 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Brewer Science, Inc. 53 BTL Healthcare Technologies A.S. 53 Security Enhancement Systems, LLC 53 University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center 53

Shanghai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	3.1%
2021	1	3.1%
2022	6	18.8%
2023	19	59.4%
2024	5	15.6%

Which technologies does Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 23

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 19

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 6

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 4

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 3

B60F - Vehicles FOR USE Both ON Rail AND ON ROAD; Amphibious OR Like VEHICLES; Convertible Vehicles 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

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 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 71.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #9,869 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. against Santoku Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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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