Where does ASM International N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ASM International N.V. ranks #4,995 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 ASM International N.V. hold?

ASM International N.V. holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is ASM International N.V.'s Innovation Score?

ASM International N.V. has an Innovation Score of 43.2 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ASM International N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ASM International N.V.'s recent grant velocity is -70% 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 ASM International N.V.'s patents?

ASM International N.V.'s patents average 19.7 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 ASM International N.V. 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

ASM International N.V.

Q: What technology areas does ASM International N.V. focus on?

ASM International N.V.'s top technology area is 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) with 59 patents, ranking #49 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ASM ranks #4,995 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,995
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.2/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4995 · Foreign Corporation #4,995 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,995/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ALi
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ALi Corporation (±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 ASM’s 43.2 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 14.7 pts (34%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 14.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ASM International · this assignee

43
Breeo · near

43
Osmose Utilities… · near

43
Schreder · near

43
Vulcan Gaming · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ASM's Innovation Score is 43.2/100 (top 29% 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 ASM?

Each dot is one of ASM’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). ASM’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ASM's grants concentrate

ASM International N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 85.5% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, ASM sits between Wabtec Holding Corp. and Bemis Associates, Inc..

ASM's three-year grant acceleration

ASM International N.V. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Wabtec Holding

70
Wickr

70
Ali

69
AOB Products

69
Astex Therapeutics

69
Augusta Universit…

69
Bambino Prezioso…

69
Bemis Associates

69
ASM International ◀

69

What this shows ASM holds 69 patents at rank #4,995, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ASM

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,995 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ASM, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), ASM ranks #49 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Breeo, LLC 43 Schreder 43 Osmose Utilities Services, Inc. 43 Vulcan Gaming LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Capital One Financial Corporation 19.7 avg CBS Interactive Inc. 19.7 avg Intellijoint Surgical Inc. 19.7 avg Alderbio Holdings LLC 19.7 avg

ASM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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ASM International N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	27.5%
2016	12	17.4%
2017	11	15.9%
2018	6	8.7%
2019	5	7.2%
2020	8	11.6%
2021	3	4.3%
2022	2	2.9%
2023	3	4.3%

Which technologies does ASM International N.V. patent most?

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 59

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 57

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 22

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 9

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 6

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 4

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 4

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 17 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

ASM International N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ASM International N.V.'s lead technology class is 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 Evap), 85.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #4,995 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ASM International N.V. against Wabtec Holding Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.2/100 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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