Where does Hefei Reliance Memory Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hefei Reliance Memory Limited ranks #4,667 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 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited hold?

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's Innovation Score?

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hefei Reliance Memory Limited focus on?

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's top technology area is G11C (Static Stores) with 67 patents, ranking #82 of 882 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's recent grant velocity is +383% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's patents?

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's patents average 18.4 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 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 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

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G11C (Static Stores).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hefei ranks #4,667 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 9 technology areas.

#4,667
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +383%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4667 · Foreign Corporation #4,667 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,667/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DE LA RUE Internatio…
CPC-NARROW G11C · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +383% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DE LA RUE International Limited (±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 Hefei’s 43.7 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 15.0 pts (34%) Velocity 7.1 pts (16%) Breadth 10.6 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caterpillar Trimble… · near

44
Cylance · near

44
Hefei Reliance Memory · this assignee

44
iNtRON Biotechnology · near

44
Taylor Made Group · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hefei's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Hefei?

Each dot is one of Hefei’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). Hefei’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hefei's grants concentrate

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 89.3% of grants classified under G11C (Static Stores). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Hefei sits between DE LA RUE International Limited and Incept, LLC.

Hefei's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hefei Reliance Memory Limited moved from 33 to 35 grants (1.06x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

DE LA RUE Interna…

75
Federal Home Loan…

75
Grass

75
Hitachi-ge Nuclea…

75
Hussmann

75
Hyundai Steel

75
Invensas Bonding

75
Incept

75
Hefei Reliance Me… ◀

75

What this shows Hefei holds 75 patents at rank #4,668, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hefei

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,668 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G11C (Static Stores)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hefei, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G11C (Static Stores), Hefei ranks #82 of 882 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Taylor Made Group, LLC 44 iNtRON Biotechnology, Inc. 44 Cylance Inc. 44 Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH 18.4 avg Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 18.4 avg Alta Devices, Inc. 18.4 avg Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC 18.4 avg

Hefei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hefei Reliance Memory Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	2.7%
2019	10	13.3%
2020	12	16.0%
2021	11	14.7%
2022	14	18.7%
2023	11	14.7%
2024	10	13.3%
2025partial year	5	6.7%

Which technologies does Hefei Reliance Memory Limited patent most?

G11C - Static Stores 67

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 26

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited's lead technology class is G11C (Static Stores), 89.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11C
Ranked #4,667 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hefei Reliance Memory Limited against DE LA RUE International Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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