Where does Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company ranks #909 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 Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company hold?

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company holds 493 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's Innovation Score?

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company has an Innovation Score of 59.9 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company focus on?

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's top technology area is H03M (CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General) with 121 patents, ranking #22 of 1,072 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

Is Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's recent grant velocity is -79% 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 Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's patents?

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's patents average 22.2 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 Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company 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

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 493 granted patents across 82 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H03M (CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Analog ranks #909 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 493 patents across 82 technology areas.

#909
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.9/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R909 · Foreign Corporation #909 · 493 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 493 grants
TOP-DECILE #909/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Citizen Watch
CPC-WIDE H03M · 82 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. (±1 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 Analog’s 59.9 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 21.4 pts (36%) Velocity 0.1 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (22%)

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Voyetra Turtle Beach · near

60
PPC Broadband · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Analog's Innovation Score is 59.9/100 (top 4% 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 Analog?

Each dot is one of Analog’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). Analog’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Analog's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company received 85 grants versus 408 in 2015–2019 (-79% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 118 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class H03M accounts for 24.5% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Symbol Technologies, LLC (#905) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (#913).

Analog's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company moved from 200 to 3 grants (0.01x 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 #3,274. See the growth leaderboard.

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Fitbit

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Inphi

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Tyco (Shanghai)

489

What this shows Analog holds 493 patents at rank #909, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Analog

By rank, the assignees closest to #909 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H03M (Coding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Analog, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H03M (Coding), Analog ranks #22 of 1,072 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 60 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. 60 Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education 60 PPC Broadband, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

RF Micro Devices, Inc. 22.2 avg TeraDiode, Inc. 22.2 avg Saint-gobain Centre DE Recherches ET D'etudes Europeen 22.2 avg Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH 22.2 avg

Analog's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	11.0%
2016	77	15.6%
2017	84	17.0%
2018	75	15.2%
2019	118	23.9%
2020	69	14.0%
2021	13	2.6%
2022	2	0.4%
2024	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company patent most?

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 121

H03F - Amplifiers 68

H03K - Pulse Technique 65

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 58

H04B - Transmission 57

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 46

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 43

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 40

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 34

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 27

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 21

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 21

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 18

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 15

Top 15 of 82 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

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company's lead technology class is H03M (CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General), 24.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H03M
Ranked #909 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company against Symbol Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.9/100 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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