Where does Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. ranks #1,496 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 Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. hold?

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. holds 278 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. focus on?

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 178 patents, ranking #111 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s patents?

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s patents average 17.7 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 Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. 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 US Corporation

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 278 granted patents across 34 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, Infineon ranks #1,496 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 278 patents across 34 technology areas.

#1,496
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1496 · US Corporation #1,496 · 278 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 278 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,496/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amkor Technology…
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. 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 Infineon’s 51.9 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 19.5 pts (38%) Velocity 1.2 pts (2%) Breadth 20.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Foxconn (KUNSHAN)… · near

52
Infineon Americas · this assignee

52
Korea Institute of… · near

52
Nite Ize · near

52
Porsche · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Infineon's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Infineon?

Each dot is one of Infineon’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). Infineon’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Infineon's grants concentrate

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (87 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Infineon sits between Teijin Limited and Vega Grieshaber KG.

Infineon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. moved from 44 to 8 grants (0.18x 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 #3,117. See the growth leaderboard.

Teijin

279
Amkor Technology…

278
Carestream Health

278
Dassault Systemes

278
Mitsubishi Heavy…

278
Rapid7

278
Tableau Software

278
Vega Grieshaber KG

278
Infineon Americas ◀

278

What this shows Infineon holds 278 patents at rank #1,496, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Infineon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,496 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Infineon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Infineon ranks #111 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Foxconn (KUNSHAN) Computer Connector Co., Ltd. 52 Nite Ize, Inc. 52 Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology 52 Porsche AG 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Johns Manville 17.7 avg Zephyros, Inc. 17.7 avg Abb Vie Inc. 17.7 avg The Research Foundation for The State University of New York 17.7 avg

Infineon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	3.2%
2016	87	31.3%
2017	83	29.9%
2018	45	16.2%
2019	23	8.3%
2020	10	3.6%
2021	11	4.0%
2022	4	1.4%
2023	3	1.1%
2024	1	0.4%
2025partial year	2	0.7%

Which technologies does Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 178

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 147

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 59

H03K - Pulse Technique 27

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 25

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 8

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 8

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 7

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 5

H03F - Amplifiers 5

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

Top 15 of 34 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

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #1,496 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. against Teijin Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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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