Where does Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. ranks #2,246 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 First Union Technology Co., Ltd. hold?

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. holds 175 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. focus on?

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 161 patents, ranking #9 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +32% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.6 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 First Union Technology 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

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 175 granted patents across 35 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shenzhen ranks #2,246 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 175 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,246
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2246 · Foreign Corporation #2,246 · 175 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 175 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,246/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LNW Gaming
CPC-FOCUS A24F · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LNW Gaming, 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 Shenzhen’s 50.9 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 17.9 pts (35%) Velocity 4.5 pts (9%) Breadth 20.9 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Intercontinental… · near

51
Novaled · near

51
Shenzhen First… · this assignee

51
Tessera · near

51
UNIVERSITÉ Paris… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shenzhen's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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 Shenzhen?

Each dot is one of Shenzhen’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). Shenzhen’s own 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Shenzhen's grants concentrate

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 92% of grants classified under A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (35 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Shenzhen sits between LNW Gaming, Inc. and Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC.

Shenzhen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. moved from 62 to 42 grants (0.68x 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 #2,221. See the growth leaderboard.

LNW Gaming

175
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175
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175
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175
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175
Argo AI

174
Belkin Internatio…

174
Edgewell Personal…

174

What this shows Shenzhen holds 175 patents at rank #2,246, 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 #2,246 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Shenzhen ranks #9 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Tessera LLC 51 Novaled GmbH 51 UNIVERSITÉ Paris DIDEROT—PARIS 7 51 Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. 12.6 avg FIH (HONG KONG) Limited 12.6 avg Colder Products Company 12.6 avg Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. 12.6 avg

Shenzhen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 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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Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.1%
2016	2	1.1%
2017	10	5.7%
2018	35	20.0%
2019	17	9.7%
2020	26	14.9%
2021	19	10.9%
2022	6	3.4%
2023	10	5.7%
2024	26	14.9%
2025partial year	22	12.6%

Which technologies does Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 161

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 73

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 49

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 9

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 8

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

Top 15 of 35 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

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 92% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #2,246 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. against LNW Gaming, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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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