Where does Cymer, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cymer, LLC ranks #3,529 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 Cymer, LLC hold?

Cymer, LLC holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Cymer, LLC's Innovation Score?

Cymer, LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cymer, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cymer, LLC's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Cymer, LLC's patents?

Cymer, LLC's patents average 23.1 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 Cymer, LLC 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

Cymer, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Cymer, LLC focus on?

Cymer, LLC's top technology area is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical) with 72 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 23 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: H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cymer ranks #3,529 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 23 technology areas.

#3,529
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 23.1
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3529 · US Corporation #3,529 · 104 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,529/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axcelis
CPC-FOCUS H01S · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cymer · this assignee

54
Heineken Supply… · near

54
Masonite · near

54
Takasago International · near

54
Georgia State… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cymer's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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.

Where Cymer's grants concentrate

Cymer, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Cymer sits between Axcelis Technologies, Inc. and Gigamon Inc..

Cymer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cymer, LLC moved from 25 to 28 grants (1.12x 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 #919. See the growth leaderboard.

Axcelis

104
Benq

104
Comscore

104
Core Wireless Lic…

104
Depuy Mitek

104
Dow Corning Toray

104
ETH ZÜRICH (Eidge…

104
Gigamon

104
Cymer ◀

104

What this shows Cymer holds 104 patents at rank #3,529, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cymer

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,529 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cymer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Takasago International Corporation 54 Heineken Supply Chain B.V. 54 Masonite Corporation 54 Georgia State University Research Foundation 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.1 here).

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. 23.1 avg Pensando Systems Inc. 23.1 avg Qumulo, Inc. 23.1 avg Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. 23.1 avg

Cymer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Cymer, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.8%
2016	5	4.8%
2017	13	12.5%
2018	14	13.5%
2019	11	10.6%
2020	8	7.7%
2021	6	5.8%
2022	3	2.9%
2023	12	11.5%
2024	13	12.5%
2025partial year	13	12.5%

Which technologies does Cymer, LLC patent most?

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 72

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; 68

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 28

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 18

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

B01D - Separation 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

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 3

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 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

C22C - Alloys 2

H05G - X-ray Technique 1

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,529

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Cymer, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cymer, LLC's lead technology class is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #3,529 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cymer, LLC against Axcelis Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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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