Where does Zoox, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zoox, Inc. ranks #427 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 Zoox, Inc. hold?

Zoox, Inc. holds 1,064 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 92 technology areas.

What is Zoox, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zoox, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 76.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zoox, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zoox, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +986% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Zoox, Inc.'s patents?

Zoox, Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Zoox, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Zoox, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Zoox, Inc. focus on?

Zoox, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 479 patents, ranking #12 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 92 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,064 granted patents across 92 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zoox ranks #427 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,064 patents across 92 technology areas.

#427
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (76.5/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +986%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R427 · US Corporation #427 · 1,064 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #427/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lawrence Livermore…
CPC-WIDE B60W · 92 areas
INNOV-STRONG 76.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +986% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (±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 Zoox’s 76.5 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 24.1 pts (32%) Velocity 16.4 pts (21%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TE Connectivity… · near

77
Zoox · this assignee

77
Siemens Healthineers · near

76
Toyota Motor North… · near

76
T-Mobile Innovations · near

76
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zoox's Innovation Score is 76.5/100 (top 1% 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 Zoox?

Each dot is one of Zoox’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). Zoox’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Zoox's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Zoox, Inc. received 804 grants versus 74 in 2015–2019 (+986% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 218 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 3. Lead class B60W accounts for 45% of the portfolio across 92 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (#423) and Duke University (#431).

Zoox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zoox, Inc. moved from 246 to 606 grants (2.46x 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 #121. See the growth leaderboard.

Novatek Microelec…

1,071
Hitachi High-

1,068
Hoffmann-la Roche

1,065
Lawrence Livermor…

1,064
Zoox ◀

1,064
Universal Display

1,058
RTX

1,055
Servicenow

1,052
Duke University

1,050

What this shows Zoox holds 1,064 patents at rank #427, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zoox

By rank, the assignees closest to #427 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zoox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Zoox ranks #12 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (77 here).

Siemens Healthineers AG 76 Toyota Motor North America, Inc. 76 TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH 77 T-Mobile Innovations LLC 76

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC 18.4 avg Fair Isaac Corporation 18.4 avg Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC 18.4 avg Alta Devices, Inc. 18.4 avg

Zoox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

77 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Zoox, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	0.3%
2017	10	0.9%
2018	13	1.2%
2019	48	4.5%
2020	69	6.5%
2021	129	12.1%
2022	174	16.4%
2023	214	20.1%
2024	218	20.5%
2025partial year	186	17.5%

Which technologies does Zoox, Inc. patent most?

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 479

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 360

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 288

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 233

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 202

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 191

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 176

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 157

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 121

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 96

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 80

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 70

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 57

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 48

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 41

Top 15 of 92 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

Zoox, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zoox, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #427 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zoox, Inc. against Novatek Microelectronics Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 76.5/100 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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