Where does Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. ranks #15,317 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 Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. hold?

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 32.8 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. focus on?

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 17 patents, ranking #670 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'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 Globalwafers Japan 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

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 13 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, Globalwafers ranks #15,317 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 13 technology areas.

#15,317
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.8/100): 6.9
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15317 · Foreign Corporation #15,317 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,317/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gaodi Digital…
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gaodi Digital (Qingdao) 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.

How Globalwafers’s 32.8 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 10.3 pts (31%) Velocity 5.6 pts (17%) Breadth 12.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 4.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Globalwafers Japan · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Globalwafers's Innovation Score is 32.8/100 (42nd percentile 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 Globalwafers?

Each dot is one of Globalwafers’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). Globalwafers’s own 6.9 claims/patent is at or below the 7.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Globalwafers's grants concentrate

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 89.5% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Globalwafers sits between GEA Procomac S.p.A. and Gas Technologies LLC.

Globalwafers's three-year grant acceleration

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

GEA Procomac S p A

19
Gecom

19
GI Dynamics

19
GKN Driveline Jap…

19
GSG Holdings

19
Guangzhou Shengwe…

19
Gaodi Digital (Qi…

19
Gas

19
Globalwafers Japan ◀

19

What this shows Globalwafers holds 19 patents at rank #15,309, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Globalwafers

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,309 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Globalwafers's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% 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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Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.8%
2017	1	5.3%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	1	5.3%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	3	15.8%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	1	5.3%
2024	3	15.8%
2025partial year	3	15.8%

Which technologies does Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 17

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 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 89.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #15,317 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Globalwafers Japan Co., Ltd. against GEA Procomac S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.8/100 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.

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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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