Where does Disco Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Disco Corporation ranks #378 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 Disco Corporation hold?

Disco Corporation holds 1,157 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 118 technology areas.

What is Disco Corporation's Innovation Score?

Disco Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.6 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 Disco Corporation focus on?

Disco Corporation's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 848 patents, ranking #27 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 118 CPC subclasses total.

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

Disco Corporation's recent grant velocity is +79% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Disco Corporation's patents?

Disco Corporation's patents average 6.9 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 Disco 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

Disco Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,157 granted patents across 118 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Disco ranks #378 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,157 patents across 118 technology areas.

#378
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 6.9
avg claims per patent: +79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R378 · Foreign Corporation #378 · 1,157 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #378/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BorgWarner
CPC-WIDE H01L · 118 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BorgWarner Inc. (±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 Disco’s 59.6 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 24.4 pts (41%) Velocity 6.1 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 4.1 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nivarox-FAR · near

60
Boise State University · near

60
Disco · this assignee

60
Hunter Douglas · near

60
The Charles Machine… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Disco's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (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 Disco?

Each dot is one of Disco’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). Disco’s own 6.9 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Disco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Disco Corporation received 673 grants versus 377 in 2015–2019 (+79% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 167 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 52. Lead class H01L accounts for 73.3% of the portfolio across 118 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Volvo Truck Corporation (#374) and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (#382).

Disco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Disco Corporation moved from 399 to 368 grants (0.92x 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 #1,406. See the growth leaderboard.

Volvo Truck

1,171
Syngenta Particip…

1,167
Sprint Spectrum

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi…

1,164
Disco ◀

1,157
Borgwarner

1,156
Analog Devices

1,151
The United States…

1,151
Cypress Semicondu…

1,149

What this shows Disco holds 1,157 patents at rank #378, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Disco

By rank, the assignees closest to #378 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Disco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Disco ranks #27 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Hunter Douglas Inc. 60 The Charles Machine Works, Inc. 60 Boise State University 60 Nivarox-FAR S.A. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.9 here).

Macneil IP LLC 6.9 avg Kikkoman Corporation 6.9 avg Modernsolid Industrial Co., Ltd. 6.9 avg Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited 6.9 avg

Disco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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

Disco Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	52	4.5%
2016	63	5.4%
2017	80	6.9%
2018	88	7.6%
2019	94	8.1%
2020	138	11.9%
2021	167	14.4%
2022	140	12.1%
2023	120	10.4%
2024	108	9.3%
2025partial year	107	9.2%

Which technologies does Disco Corporation patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 848

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 369

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 196

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 150

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 57

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 53

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 51

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 47

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 46

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 44

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 37

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 31

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 31

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 27

Top 15 of 118 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

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

Disco Corporation's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #378 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Disco Corporation against Volvo Truck Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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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