Where does Imec VZW rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imec VZW ranks #514 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 Imec VZW hold?

Imec VZW holds 876 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 146 technology areas.

What is Imec VZW's Innovation Score?

Imec VZW 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 Imec VZW focus on?

Imec VZW's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 282 patents, ranking #79 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 146 CPC subclasses total.

Is Imec VZW's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Imec VZW's recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Imec VZW's patents?

Imec VZW's patents average 16.2 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 Imec VZW 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

Imec VZW

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 876 granted patents across 146 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, Imec ranks #514 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 876 patents across 146 technology areas.

#514
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R514 · Foreign Corporation #514 · 876 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 876 grants
TOP-DECILE #514/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harry Winston
CPC-WIDE H01L · 146 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harry Winston SA (±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 Imec’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 23.4 pts (37%) Velocity 5.5 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broadcom · near

64
Hefei Xinsheng… · near

64
Imec VZW · this assignee

64
Nissan Chemical · near

64
THE Texas A&M… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Imec'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 Imec?

Each dot is one of Imec’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). Imec’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Imec's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Imec VZW received 494 grants versus 317 in 2015–2019 (+56% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 120 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 13. Lead class H01L accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 146 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (#510) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (#518).

Imec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Imec VZW moved from 331 to 271 grants (0.82x 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 #1,773. See the growth leaderboard.

Furukawa Electric

883
E I DU Pont DE Ne…

882
Charter Communica…

878
Harry Winston

876
Imec VZW ◀

876
Amgen

875
Georgia Tech Rese…

870
IFP Energies Nouv…

870
Rolls-royce North…

868

What this shows Imec holds 876 patents at rank #514, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imec

By rank, the assignees closest to #514 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Imec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Imec ranks #79 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Nissan Chemical Corporation 64 THE Texas A&M University System 64 Broadcom Corporation 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Kioxia Corporation 16.2 avg Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC 16.2 avg Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong) 16.2 avg TK Holdings, LLC 16.2 avg

Imec'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.

View data table

Imec VZW patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	1.5%
2016	48	5.5%
2017	66	7.5%
2018	82	9.4%
2019	108	12.3%
2020	120	13.7%
2021	103	11.8%
2022	116	13.2%
2023	94	10.7%
2024	61	7.0%
2025partial year	65	7.4%

Which technologies does Imec VZW patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 282

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 230

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 112

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 79

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 63

G11C - Static Stores 63

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 59

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 57

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 47

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 42

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 41

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 41

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; 41

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 36

Top 15 of 146 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Imec VZW's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imec VZW's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #514 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imec VZW against Furukawa Electric 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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