Where does Au Optronics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Au Optronics Corporation ranks #259 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 Au Optronics Corporation hold?

Au Optronics Corporation holds 1,648 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 107 technology areas.

What is Au Optronics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Au Optronics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Au Optronics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Au Optronics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -32% 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 Au Optronics Corporation's patents?

Au Optronics Corporation's patents average 14.3 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 Au Optronics 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 Foreign Corporation

Au Optronics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Au Optronics Corporation focus on?

Au Optronics Corporation's top technology area is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information) with 596 patents, ranking #18 of 1,688 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 107 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,648 granted patents across 107 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: G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Au ranks #259 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,648 patents across 107 technology areas.

#259
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.6/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R259 · Foreign Corporation #259 · 1,648 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #259/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infineon Austria
CPC-WIDE G09G · 107 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infineon Technologies Austria AG (±2 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 Au’s 62.6 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 25.6 pts (41%) Velocity 3.4 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Au Optronics · this assignee

63
Black Sesame · near

63
Casio Computer · near

63
Shoei Chemical · near

63
AGC Glass Europe · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Au's Innovation Score is 62.6/100 (top 2% 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 Au?

Each dot is one of Au’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). Au’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Au's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Au Optronics Corporation received 658 grants versus 970 in 2015–2019 (-32% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 315 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 53. Lead class G09G accounts for 36.2% of the portfolio across 107 subclasses. Volume neighbours: THE Regents OF THE University OF Michigan (#255) and Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited (#263).

Au's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Au Optronics Corporation moved from 531 to 273 grants (0.51x 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 #2,663. See the growth leaderboard.

THE Regents OF TH…

1,666
Wisconsin Alumni…

1,659
Pure Storage

1,652
Infineon Austria

1,650
Au Optronics ◀

1,648
NGK Insulators

1,631
Rambus

1,626
Stryker

1,619
Lenovo (Beijing)

1,618

What this shows Au holds 1,648 patents at rank #259, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Au

By rank, the assignees closest to #259 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Au, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…), Au ranks #18 of 1,688 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. 63 Black Sesame Technologies Inc. 63 Shoei Chemical Inc. 63 AGC Glass Europe 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation 14.3 avg Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft 14.3 avg Karlsruher Institut FÜR Technologie 14.3 avg Shenyang Neusoft Medical Systems Co., Ltd. 14.3 avg

Au's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Au Optronics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	315	19.1%
2016	225	13.7%
2017	157	9.5%
2018	127	7.7%
2019	146	8.9%
2020	194	11.8%
2021	191	11.6%
2022	124	7.5%
2023	96	5.8%
2024	53	3.2%
2025partial year	20	1.2%

Which technologies does Au Optronics Corporation patent most?

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 596

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 542

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 285

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 274

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 200

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 179

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 166

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 134

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 71

G11C - Static Stores 71

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 63

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 56

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 50

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 45

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 35

Top 15 of 107 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

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

Au Optronics Corporation's lead technology class is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09G
Ranked #259 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Au Optronics Corporation against THE Regents OF THE University OF Michigan, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.6/100 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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