Where does GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. ranks #583 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 GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. hold?

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. holds 769 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 63.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. focus on?

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s top technology area is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices) with 389 patents, ranking #36 of 1,402 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -42% 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 GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s patents?

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s patents average 17.6 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 GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. 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

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 769 granted patents across 65 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: H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Globalfoundries ranks #583 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 769 patents across 65 technology areas.

#583
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R583 · Foreign Corporation #583 · 769 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 769 grants
TOP-DECILE #583/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axis AB
CPC-WIDE H10D · 65 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axis AB (±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 Globalfoundries’s 63.6 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 23.0 pts (36%) Velocity 5.1 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GlobalFoundries… · this assignee

64
Juno Therapeutics · near

64
Boehringer Ingelheim… · near

64
Kimberly-Clark… · near

64
Maxell · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Globalfoundries's Innovation Score is 63.6/100 (top 2% 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 Globalfoundries?

Each dot is one of Globalfoundries’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). Globalfoundries’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Globalfoundries's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. received 270 grants versus 463 in 2015–2019 (-42% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 100 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 39. Lead class H10D accounts for 50.6% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (#579) and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (#587).

Globalfoundries's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. moved from 210 to 160 grants (0.76x 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 #1,953. See the growth leaderboard.

SK Telecom

772
Hitachi Construct…

771
Novozymes A/S

770
Axis AB

769
Janssen Pharmaceu…

769
Medtronic Minimed

769
Globalfoundries S… ◀

769
Cochlear

768
Mellanox

766

What this shows GlobalFoundries holds 769 patents at rank #583, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GlobalFoundries

By rank, the assignees closest to #583 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GlobalFoundries, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), GlobalFoundries ranks #36 of 1,402 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Juno Therapeutics, Inc. 64 Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 64 Maxell, Ltd. 64 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Level 3 Communications, LLC 17.6 avg The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 17.6 avg Amadeus S.A.S. 17.6 avg Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. 17.6 avg

Globalfoundries's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	96	12.5%
2016	89	11.6%
2017	97	12.6%
2018	81	10.5%
2019	100	13.0%
2020	68	8.8%
2021	42	5.5%
2022	64	8.3%
2023	57	7.4%
2024	39	5.1%
2025partial year	36	4.7%

Which technologies does GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 389

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 312

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 298

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 205

G11C - Static Stores 108

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 33

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 23

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 18

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 13

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 12

H03K - Pulse Technique 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

Top 15 of 65 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

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd.'s lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 50.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #583 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. against SK Telecom Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.6/100 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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