Where does Dialog Semiconductor Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dialog Semiconductor Inc. ranks #1,438 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 Dialog Semiconductor Inc. hold?

Dialog Semiconductor Inc. holds 290 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Dialog Semiconductor Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -74% 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 Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s patents?

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Dialog Semiconductor Inc. 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

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Dialog Semiconductor Inc. focus on?

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 185 patents, ranking #24 of 1,541 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 290 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: 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;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dialog ranks #1,438 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 290 patents across 32 technology areas.

#1,438
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1438 · US Corporation #1,438 · 290 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 290 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,438/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Leica Microsystems CMS
CPC-FOCUS H02M · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Leica Microsystems CMS GMBH (±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 Dialog’s 52.7 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 19.6 pts (37%) Velocity 2.6 pts (5%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cyber IP Holdings · near

53
Dialog Semiconductor · this assignee

53
Rubrik · near

53
Institute For Basic… · near

53
Roller Bearing of… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dialog's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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 Dialog?

Each dot is one of Dialog’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). Dialog’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dialog's grants concentrate

Dialog Semiconductor Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 63.8% of grants classified under 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;). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (68 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Dialog sits between Intermolecular, Inc. and Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd..

Dialog's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dialog Semiconductor Inc. moved from 63 to 25 grants (0.40x 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 #2,881. See the growth leaderboard.

Intermolecular

291
National Research…

291
Poulsen Roser A/S

291
Tomy

291
Leica Microsystem…

290
Square Enix

290
Verb Surgical

290
Dialog Semiconduc… ◀

290
Cheng UEI Precisi…

289

What this shows Dialog holds 290 patents at rank #1,438, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dialog

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,438 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dialog, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC), Dialog ranks #24 of 1,541 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Rubrik, Inc. 53 Cyber IP Holdings, LLC 53 Institute For Basic Science 53 Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Avalanche Technology, Inc. 17.5 avg Mentor Acquisition One, LLC 17.5 avg VCE IP Holding Company LLC 17.5 avg ACM Research (SHANGHAI), Inc. 17.5 avg

Dialog's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Dialog Semiconductor Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	55	19.0%
2016	68	23.4%
2017	31	10.7%
2018	48	16.6%
2019	28	9.7%
2020	25	8.6%
2021	10	3.4%
2022	10	3.4%
2023	10	3.4%
2024	5	1.7%

Which technologies does Dialog Semiconductor Inc. patent most?

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 185

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 117

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 68

H03K - Pulse Technique 40

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 36

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 31

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 28

H03F - Amplifiers 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 6

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

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

H03G - Control OF Amplification 5

H04B - Transmission 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

Top 15 of 32 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

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dialog Semiconductor Inc.'s lead technology class is 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;), 63.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02M
Ranked #1,438 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dialog Semiconductor Inc. against Intermolecular, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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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