Where does Himax Technologies Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Himax Technologies Limited ranks #957 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 Himax Technologies Limited hold?

Himax Technologies Limited holds 462 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 71 technology areas.

What is Himax Technologies Limited's Innovation Score?

Himax Technologies Limited has an Innovation Score of 60.2 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 Himax Technologies Limited focus on?

Himax Technologies Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 125 patents. Grants appear in 71 CPC subclasses total.

Is Himax Technologies Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Himax Technologies Limited's recent grant velocity is +68% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Himax Technologies Limited's patents?

Himax Technologies Limited's patents average 13.5 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 Himax Technologies 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

Himax Technologies Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 462 granted patents across 71 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Himax ranks #957 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 462 patents across 71 technology areas.

#957
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.2/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: +68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R957 · Foreign Corporation #957 · 462 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 462 grants
TOP-DECILE #957/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CNH Industrial Canada
CPC-WIDE G06F · 71 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CNH Industrial Canada, 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
Gen-probe Incorporated · near

60
Himax · this assignee

60
Nextracker · near

60
Poet Research · near

60
Thinkware · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Himax's Innovation Score is 60.2/100 (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.

How Himax's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Himax Technologies Limited received 268 grants versus 160 in 2015–2019 (+68% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 66 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 24. Lead class G06F accounts for 27.1% of the portfolio across 71 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC (#953) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (#961).

Himax's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Himax Technologies Limited moved from 160 to 141 grants (0.88x 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 #1,547. See the growth leaderboard.

Rohm and Haas Mat…

464
Netflix

463
THE Trustees OF P…

463
CNH Industrial Ca…

462
Himax ◀

462
Riken

461
Cellco Partnership

459
Sumitomo Electric…

459
Huazhong Universi…

458

What this shows Himax holds 462 patents at rank #957, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Himax

By rank, the assignees closest to #957 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Gen-probe Incorporated 60 Thinkware Corporation 60 Nextracker LLC 60 Poet Research, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Faurecia Interieur Industrie 13.5 avg Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. 13.5 avg Plastipak Packaging, Inc. 13.5 avg Zhongshan Broad-ocean Motor Co., Ltd. 13.5 avg

Himax's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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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Himax Technologies Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	6.9%
2016	39	8.4%
2017	24	5.2%
2018	32	6.9%
2019	33	7.1%
2020	61	13.2%
2021	66	14.3%
2022	57	12.3%
2023	43	9.3%
2024	41	8.9%
2025partial year	34	7.4%

Which technologies does Himax Technologies Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 125

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 125

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 63

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 62

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 61

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 50

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 32

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 27

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 21

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 21

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 17

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 16

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 13

H03K - Pulse Technique 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

Top 15 of 71 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#957

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.2 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

Himax Technologies Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Himax Technologies Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 27.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #957 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Himax Technologies Limited against Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.2/100 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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