Where does Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited ranks #2,618 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's recent grant velocity is -81% 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 Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's patents?

Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's patents average 16.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited

Q: How is the Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development 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 PatentsView assignee record - 149 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2021. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thunder ranks #2,618 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 149 patents across 59 technology areas.

#2,618
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2618 · Foreign Corporation #2,618 · 149 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 149 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,618/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Politecnico di Milano
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Politecnico di Milano (±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 Thunder’s 51.9 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 17.3 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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IGT Global Soulutions · near

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52
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52
Thunder Power New… · this assignee

52
Touchtunes Music · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thunder's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Thunder?

Each dot is one of Thunder’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). Thunder’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Thunder's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited received 24 grants versus 125 in 2015–2019 (-81% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 65 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 53% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Politecnico di Milano (#2,614) and B. Braun Avitum AG (#2,622).

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149
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149
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149
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149
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149
ZIH

149
Thunder Power New… ◀

149
Ablynx

148
B Braun Avitum

148

What this shows Thunder holds 149 patents at rank #2,618, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thunder

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,618 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thunder, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Thunder ranks #112 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Touchtunes Music Company, LLC 52 Qiagen GmbH 52 SCA Hygiene Products AB 52 IGT Global Soulutions Corporation 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Tektronix, Inc. 16.0 avg Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 16.0 avg Evonik Operations GmbH 16.0 avg Stichting Imec Nederland 16.0 avg

Thunder's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	23	15.4%
2018	65	43.6%
2019	37	24.8%
2020	23	15.4%
2021	1	0.7%

Which technologies does Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 79

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 76

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 62

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 58

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 56

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 37

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 28

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 25

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 23

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 22

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 22

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 22

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 20

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 16

Top 15 of 59 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

Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 53% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,618 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited against Politecnico di Milano, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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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