Where does Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. ranks #6,025 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 Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. hold?

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. focus on?

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 16 patents, ranking #706 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -94% 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 Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.8 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 Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. 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

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 33 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Foxconn ranks #6,025 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 33 technology areas.

#6,025
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6025 · Foreign Corporation #6,025 · 56 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,025/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eberspächer Catem &
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 33 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eberspächer Catem GmbH & Co. (±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 Foxconn’s 61.4 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 14.0 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 20.3 pts (33%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Harbin Institute OF… · near

61
Foxconn Technology… · this assignee

61
Furukawa Electric · near

61
Hydro-Quebec · near

61
Luminar · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Foxconn's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 Foxconn?

Each dot is one of Foxconn’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). Foxconn’s own 11.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Foxconn's grants concentrate

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (22 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Foxconn sits between ENDRESS+HAUSER Wetzer GMBH+CO. KG and Grip Holdings LLC.

Foxconn's three-year grant acceleration

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Endress+Hauser We…

56
Eberspächer Catem…

56
Enovix

56
Flex-n-gate Advan…

56
Fred Hutchinson C…

56
Fresenius Vial SAS

56
Garant GP

56
Grip Holdings

56
Foxconn Technolog… ◀

56

What this shows Foxconn holds 56 patents at rank #6,025, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Foxconn

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,025 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Foxconn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Foxconn ranks #706 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Hydro-Quebec 61 Luminar, LLC 61 Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. 61 Harbin Institute OF Technology 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Umm-Al-Qura University 11.8 avg Safran Electrical & Power 11.8 avg PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS 11.8 avg Nidec Sankyo Corporation 11.8 avg

Foxconn's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	39.3%
2016	16	28.6%
2017	9	16.1%
2018	2	3.6%
2024	3	5.4%
2025partial year	4	7.1%

Which technologies does Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 16

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 13

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 5

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 4

H04B - Transmission 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B22C - Foundry Moulding 2

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

C23G - Cleaning OR De-greasing OF Metallic Material BY Chemical Methods Other Than Electrolysis 1

Top 15 of 33 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

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 28.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #6,025 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. against ENDRESS+HAUSER Wetzer GMBH+CO. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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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