Where does Infineon Technologies Austria AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Infineon Technologies Austria AG ranks #258 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 Austria AG hold?

Infineon Technologies Austria AG holds 1,650 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Infineon Technologies Austria AG's Innovation Score?

Infineon Technologies Austria AG has an Innovation Score of 67.6 out of 100 (top 1% 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 Austria AG focus on?

Infineon Technologies Austria AG's top technology area is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices) with 711 patents, ranking #20 of 1,402 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

Is Infineon Technologies Austria AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Infineon Technologies Austria AG's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Austria AG's patents?

Infineon Technologies Austria AG's patents average 19.8 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 Austria AG 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

Infineon Technologies Austria AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,650 granted patents across 82 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: H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Infineon ranks #258 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,650 patents across 82 technology areas.

#258
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.6/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R258 · Foreign Corporation #258 · 1,650 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #258/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Au Optronics
CPC-WIDE H10D · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Au Optronics Corporation (±2 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 67.6 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 25.6 pts (38%) Velocity 5.2 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Warsaw Orthopedic · near

68
Chevron Phillips… · near

68
Allegro MicroSystems · near

68
Infineon Austria · this assignee

68
Lawrence Livermore… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Infineon's Innovation Score is 67.6/100 (top 1% 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 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.2 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.

How Infineon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Infineon Technologies Austria AG received 581 grants versus 976 in 2015–2019 (-40% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 245 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 96. Lead class H10D accounts for 43.1% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (#254) and Stryker Corporation (#262).

Infineon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Infineon Technologies Austria AG moved from 426 to 332 grants (0.78x 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 #1,900. See the growth leaderboard.

Rockwell Automati…

1,672
THE Regents OF TH…

1,666
Wisconsin Alumni…

1,659
Pure Storage

1,652
Infineon Austria ◀

1,650
Au Optronics

1,648
NGK Insulators

1,631
Rambus

1,626
Stryker

1,619

What this shows Infineon holds 1,650 patents at rank #258, 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 #258 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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 H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), Infineon ranks #20 of 1,402 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC 68 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC 68 Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP 68 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Microchip Technology Incorporated 19.8 avg Open Invention Network LLC NC 19.8 avg Stine Seed Farm, Inc. 19.8 avg Navitas Semiconductor Limited 19.8 avg

Infineon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Austria AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	162	9.8%
2016	200	12.1%
2017	245	14.8%
2018	192	11.6%
2019	177	10.7%
2020	147	8.9%
2021	102	6.2%
2022	96	5.8%
2023	113	6.8%
2024	123	7.5%
2025partial year	93	5.6%

Which technologies does Infineon Technologies Austria AG patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 711

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 623

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 537

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 282

H03K - Pulse Technique 225

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 102

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 60

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 54

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 49

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 44

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 43

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 43

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 38

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 30

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 28

Top 15 of 82 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 Austria AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Infineon Technologies Austria AG's lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 43.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #258 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Infineon Technologies Austria AG against Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.6/100 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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