Where does Apex Semiconductor rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apex Semiconductor ranks #44,764 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 Apex Semiconductor hold?

Apex Semiconductor holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2022, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Apex Semiconductor's Innovation Score?

Apex Semiconductor has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Apex Semiconductor focus on?

Apex Semiconductor's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 5 patents, ranking #6,197 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Apex Semiconductor's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Apex Semiconductor.

What does claim depth mean for Apex Semiconductor's patents?

Apex Semiconductor's patents average 21.0 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.

How is the Apex Semiconductor 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

Apex Semiconductor

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2022. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apex ranks #44,764 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 2 technology areas.

#44,764
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R44764 · US Corporation #44,764 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
LOWER-Q #44,764/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Anthony Best Dynamics
CPC-NARROW G06F · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2022 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Anthony Best Dynamics Ltd. (±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 Apex’s 33.8 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 6.2 pts (18%) Velocity 10.0 pts (30%) Breadth 5.0 pts (15%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Apex Semiconductor · this assignee

34
IOT · near

34
Pum-tech Korea · near

34
Respivert · near

34
Woodward L'Orange · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apex's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (45th percentile 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 Apex?

Each dot is one of Apex’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). Apex’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Apex's grants concentrate

Apex Semiconductor is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Apex sits between Anthony Best Dynamics Ltd. and AppLand Inc..

Apex's three-year grant acceleration

Apex Semiconductor shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Anthony Best Dyna…

5
Anthony Innovatio…

5
Antora Energy

5
Anvilogic

5
Apollo 13 Designs

5
Apollo Enterprise…

5
Apollo Neuroscien…

5
Appland

5
Apex Semiconductor ◀

5

What this shows Apex holds 5 patents at rank #44,901, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apex

By rank, the assignees closest to #44,901 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Apex ranks #6,197 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

IOT CO.LTD. 34 Respivert Ltd. 34 Pum-tech Korea Co., Ltd 34 Woodward L'Orange GmbH 34

Apex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Apex Semiconductor patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	40.0%
2022	3	60.0%

Which technologies does Apex Semiconductor patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Apex Semiconductor's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apex Semiconductor's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #44,764 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apex Semiconductor against Anthony Best Dynamics Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.