Where does Gemalto SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gemalto SA ranks #2,042 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 Gemalto SA hold?

Gemalto SA holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Gemalto SA's Innovation Score?

Gemalto SA has an Innovation Score of 50.6 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gemalto SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gemalto SA's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Gemalto SA's patents?

Gemalto SA's patents average 12.8 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 Gemalto SA 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

Gemalto SA

Q: What technology areas does Gemalto SA focus on?

Gemalto SA's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 97 patents. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gemalto ranks #2,042 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 48 technology areas.

#2,042
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2042 · Foreign Corporation #2,042 · 194 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,042/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Duksan Neolux
CPC-WIDE H04L · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Duksan Neolux Co., Ltd (±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
VIA Alliance… · near

51
Gemalto · this assignee

51
Namics · near

51
Shibaura Mechatronics · near

51
UCB Pharma · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gemalto's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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 Gemalto's grants concentrate

Gemalto SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (47 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Gemalto sits between Nordic Semiconductor ASA and Proofpoint, Inc..

Gemalto's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gemalto SA moved from 26 to 1 grants (0.04x 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 #3,246. See the growth leaderboard.

Nordic Semiconduc…

195
Versum Materials…

195
Duksan Neolux

194
Forcepoint

194
Ingersoll-rand

194
Intertrust

194
Konami Digital En…

194
Proofpoint

194
Gemalto ◀

194

What this shows Gemalto holds 194 patents at rank #2,042, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gemalto

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,042 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation 51 Namics Corporation 51 UCB Pharma S.A. 51 VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Hongfujin Precision Electronics (ZHENGZHOU) Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Shoei Chemical Inc. 12.8 avg Cascade Corporation 12.8 avg

Gemalto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Gemalto SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	20.6%
2016	35	18.0%
2017	47	24.2%
2018	45	23.2%
2019	25	12.9%
2021	1	0.5%
2022	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Gemalto SA patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 97

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 80

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 58

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 47

H04B - Transmission 24

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 17

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 11

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

Top 15 of 48 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,042

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.6 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

Gemalto SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gemalto SA's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,042 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gemalto SA against Nordic Semiconductor ASA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.