Where does Cypress Semiconductor Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cypress Semiconductor Corporation ranks #382 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 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation hold?

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation holds 1,149 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's Innovation Score?

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has an Innovation Score of 65.5 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 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation focus on?

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 416 patents, ranking #175 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's patents?

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's patents average 17.7 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 Cypress Semiconductor 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

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,149 granted patents across 85 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, Cypress ranks #382 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,149 patents across 85 technology areas.

#382
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R382 · US Corporation #382 · 1,149 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #382/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ciena
CPC-WIDE G06F · 85 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ciena Corporation (±1 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 Cypress’s 65.5 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 24.3 pts (37%) Velocity 5.6 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AT&T Mobility II · near

66
Cypress Semiconductor · this assignee

66
Futurewei · near

66
Yungu (Gu'an)… · near

66
Rolex · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cypress's Innovation Score is 65.5/100 (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 Cypress?

Each dot is one of Cypress’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). Cypress’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Cypress's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation received 410 grants versus 647 in 2015–2019 (-37% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 165 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 74. Lead class G06F accounts for 36.2% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Disco Corporation (#378) and Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (#386).

Cypress's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation moved from 280 to 234 grants (0.84x 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 #1,703. See the growth leaderboard.

Disco

1,157
Borgwarner

1,156
Analog Devices

1,151
The United States…

1,151
Cypress Semicondu… ◀

1,149
Ciena

1,148
Jvckenwood

1,148
Hitachi Astemo

1,145
Osram Opto Semico…

1,141

What this shows Cypress holds 1,149 patents at rank #382, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cypress

By rank, the assignees closest to #382 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cypress, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Cypress ranks #175 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 66 Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. 66 Rolex SA 66 AT&T Mobility II LLC 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Sprint Spectrum LLC 17.7 avg Sprint Communications Company, L.P. 17.7 avg Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. 17.7 avg

Cypress's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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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Cypress Semiconductor Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	142	12.4%
2016	165	14.4%
2017	131	11.4%
2018	105	9.1%
2019	104	9.1%
2020	85	7.4%
2021	91	7.9%
2022	74	6.4%
2023	79	6.9%
2024	81	7.0%
2025partial year	92	8.0%

Which technologies does Cypress Semiconductor Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 416

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 178

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 164

G11C - Static Stores 153

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 142

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 141

H03K - Pulse Technique 132

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 124

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 86

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 76

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 72

H04B - Transmission 69

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 44

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 42

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 34

Top 15 of 85 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

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

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #382 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cypress Semiconductor Corporation against Disco Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.5/100 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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