Detail
Over the past year ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED received 38 US patent grants, concentrated in software / computing and video / streaming; the recent pace (8 in 90 days) is slowing versus its trailing baseline.
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Top technology areas
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Company
linkedin_urlValue in the APIindustriesValue in the APIemployee_count_lowValue in the APIemployee_count_highValue in the APIrevenueValue in the APIdescriptionValue in the APISignal
signal_nameValue in the APIassociationValue in the APIGET /v1/signals/493f9c4e-efb7-5e26-8c17-96e5e9c10a56 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for alibabagroup.com.
{
"signal_id": "493f9c4e-efb7-5e26-8c17-96e5e9c10a56",
"signal_type": "patents-company",
"signal_subtype": "portfolioVelocity",
"detected_at": "2026-09-30T17:49:20+00:00",
"company": {
"name": "Alibaba",
"domain": "alibabagroup.com"
},
"data": {
"detail": "Over the past year ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED received 38 US patent grants, concentrated in software / computing and video / streaming; the recent pace (8 in 90 days) is slowing versus its trailing baseline.",
"summary": "ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED's patent output is slowing: 38 grants in the past year, 1 in the past 30 days.",
"event_at": "2026-09-29",
"event_kind": "velocity_snapshot",
"grants_30d": 1,
"grants_60d": 4,
"grants_90d": 8,
"source_url": "https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Alibaba%20Group%20Holding%20Limited&country=US&sort=new",
"grants_180d": 10,
"grants_365d": 38,
"top_tech_areas": [
"software / computing",
"video / streaming",
"speech / audio AI"
],
"uspto_assignee": "Alibaba Group Holding Limited",
"challenges_made": {
"90d": 0,
"365d": 0
},
"cpc_section_mix": {
"G": 24,
"H": 14
},
"grant_direction": "decelerating",
"precision_class": "structural",
"unique_inventors": {
"90d": 28,
"365d": 100
},
"window_asof_date": "2026-09-29",
"challenges_received": {
"90d": 0,
"365d": 0
},
"grant_velocity_ratio": 0.32,
"primary_cpc_subclass": "H04N",
"technologies_mentioned": [
"software / computing",
"video / streaming",
"speech / audio AI"
]
}
}
curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/493f9c4e-efb7-5e26-8c17-96e5e9c10a56 \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"domain":"alibabagroup.com","limit":20}'Long text fields are shortened on this page.
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