Where does Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited ranks #4,430 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 Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited hold?

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's Innovation Score?

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's patents?

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's patents average 15.7 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 Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company 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

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited

Q: What technology areas does Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited focus on?

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 34 patents. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 75 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shenzhen ranks #4,430 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 75 technology areas.

#4,430
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4430 · Foreign Corporation #4,430 · 80 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,430/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nien Made Enterprise
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd. (±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
Telenav · near

50
Scale AI · near

50
Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D · this assignee

50
Synchron Australia Pty · near

50
The Diablo Canyon… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shenzhen's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Shenzhen's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited received 0 grants versus 80 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 6. Lead class Y02E accounts for 42.5% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Norma Germany GMBH (#4,426) and SPM Oil & Gas Inc. (#4,434).

Norma Germany

80
Nien Made Enterpr…

80
Olympus Imaging

80
Pratt Retail Spec…

80
Sila Nanotechnolo…

80
SK Biopharmaceuti…

80
Soken

80
SPM Oil & Gas

80
Shenzhen BYD Auto… ◀

80

What this shows Shenzhen holds 80 patents at rank #4,430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shenzhen

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,430 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Synchron Australia Pty Limited 50 Scale AI, Inc. 50 The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC 50 Telenav, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Fellowes, Inc. 15.7 avg GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property (No. 4) Limited 15.7 avg Bystronic Laser AG 15.7 avg Evogene Ltd. 15.7 avg

Shenzhen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	23.8%
2016	24	30.0%
2017	18	22.5%
2018	13	16.3%
2019	6	7.5%

Which technologies does Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 34

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 24

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 24

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 19

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 10

H04B - Transmission 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 7

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 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F16H - Gearing 6

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 6

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,430

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.6 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

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 42.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #4,430 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited against Norma Germany GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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

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