Where does Atmel Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atmel Corporation ranks #922 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 Atmel Corporation hold?

Atmel Corporation holds 483 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Atmel Corporation's Innovation Score?

Atmel Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.8 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 Atmel Corporation focus on?

Atmel Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 355 patents, ranking #195 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

Is Atmel Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atmel Corporation's recent grant velocity is -94% 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 Atmel Corporation's patents?

Atmel Corporation's patents average 18.9 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 Atmel Corporation 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

Atmel Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 483 granted patents across 61 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atmel ranks #922 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 483 patents across 61 technology areas.

#922
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.8/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R922 · US Corporation #922 · 483 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 483 grants
TOP-DECILE #922/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pioneer
CPC-WIDE G06F · 61 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pioneer 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 Atmel’s 58.8 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 21.4 pts (36%) Velocity 1.1 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atmel · this assignee

59
Built Robotics · near

59
Fusion Optix · near

59
Lapis Technology · near

59
Peri SE · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atmel's Innovation Score is 58.8/100 (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 Atmel?

Each dot is one of Atmel’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). Atmel’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Atmel's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Atmel Corporation received 29 grants versus 452 in 2015–2019 (-94% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 2. Lead class G06F accounts for 73.5% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC (#918) and The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (#926).

Atmel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Atmel Corporation moved from 60 to 10 grants (0.17x 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 #3,128. See the growth leaderboard.

Bridgestone Ameri…

485
Johnson & Johnson…

485
Rhodia Operations

484
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

484
Pioneer

483
Toyota Motor Nort…

483
Atmel ◀

483
Sika Technology

482
The Swatch Group…

482

What this shows Atmel holds 483 patents at rank #922, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Atmel

By rank, the assignees closest to #922 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Atmel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Atmel ranks #195 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Lapis Technology Co., Ltd. 59 Built Robotics Inc. 59 Peri SE 59 Fusion Optix, Inc. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Sandisk Technologies, Inc. 18.9 avg Bnsf Railway Company 18.9 avg The Heil Co. 18.9 avg u-blox AG 18.9 avg

Atmel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Atmel Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	128	26.5%
2016	124	25.7%
2017	82	17.0%
2018	77	15.9%
2019	41	8.5%
2020	14	2.9%
2021	5	1.0%
2022	4	0.8%
2023	4	0.8%
2024	2	0.4%
2025partial year	2	0.4%

Which technologies does Atmel Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 355

H03K - Pulse Technique 63

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 44

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 36

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 30

H04B - Transmission 21

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 18

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 16

G11C - Static Stores 16

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 14

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 14

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

Top 15 of 61 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Atmel Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atmel Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 73.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #922 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atmel Corporation against Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.8/100 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

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