Where does Applied Materials, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Applied Materials, Inc. ranks #55 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 Applied Materials, Inc. hold?

Applied Materials, Inc. holds 6,997 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 247 technology areas.

What is Applied Materials, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Applied Materials, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 74.2 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%).

What technology areas does Applied Materials, Inc. focus on?

Applied Materials, Inc.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 4,095 patents, ranking #4 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 247 CPC subclasses total.

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

Applied Materials, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +54% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Applied Materials, Inc.'s patents average 16.6 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 Applied Materials, 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

Applied Materials, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6,997 granted patents across 247 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Applied ranks #55 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6,997 patents across 247 technology areas.

#55
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.2/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R55 · US Corporation #55 · 6,997 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 7.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #55/49,997
NEAR-PEER Siemens Aktiengesell…
CPC-BROAD H01L · 247 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (±6 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 Applied’s 74.2 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 30.6 pts (41%) Velocity 8.6 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Argo AI · near

74
Rovi Guides · near

74
HL Mando · near

74
Nokia OY · near

74
Applied Materials · this assignee

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Applied's Innovation Score is 74.2/100 (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 Applied?

Each dot is one of Applied’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). Applied’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Applied's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Applied Materials, Inc. received 3,900 grants versus 2,529 in 2015–2019 (+54% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 915 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 423. Lead class H01L accounts for 58.5% of the portfolio across 247 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Oracle International Corporation (#51) and Saudi Arabian OIL Company (#59).

Applied's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Applied Materials, Inc. moved from 1,978 to 2,560 grants (1.29x 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 #648. See the growth leaderboard.

Oracle Internatio…

7,343
KIA Motors

7,264
Honeywell Interna…

7,183
Siemens Aktienges…

7,003
Applied Materials ◀

6,997
LG Chem

6,727
Covidien

6,485
The Regents of th…

6,428
Saudi Arabian OIL

6,393

What this shows Applied holds 6,997 patents at rank #55, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Applied

By rank, the assignees closest to #55 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Applied, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Applied ranks #4 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Nokia Technologies OY 74 HL Mando Corporation 74 Rovi Guides, Inc. 74 Argo AI, LLC 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education 16.6 avg Brandeis University 16.6 avg Rex Medical, L.P. 16.6 avg Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 16.6 avg

Applied's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Applied Materials, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	423	6.0%
2016	494	7.1%
2017	491	7.0%
2018	483	6.9%
2019	638	9.1%
2020	654	9.3%
2021	686	9.8%
2022	736	10.5%
2023	915	13.1%
2024	909	13.0%
2025partial year	568	8.1%

Which technologies does Applied Materials, Inc. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4,095

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2,196

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2,108

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 530

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 433

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 388

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 258

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 254

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 238

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 232

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 209

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 197

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 173

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 172

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 140

Top 15 of 247 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

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

Applied Materials, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 58.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #55 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Applied Materials, Inc. against Oracle International Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.2/100 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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