Where does Intermolecular, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intermolecular, Inc. ranks #1,434 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 Intermolecular, Inc. hold?

Intermolecular, Inc. holds 291 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Intermolecular, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Intermolecular, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Intermolecular, Inc. focus on?

Intermolecular, Inc.'s top technology area is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 123 patents, ranking #18 of 891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Intermolecular, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intermolecular, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Intermolecular, Inc.'s patents?

Intermolecular, Inc.'s patents average 16.5 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 Intermolecular, Inc. 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

Intermolecular, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 291 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Intermolecular ranks #1,434 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 291 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,434
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1434 · US Corporation #1,434 · 291 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 291 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,434/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Research…
CPC-WIDE H10N · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Research Council of Canada (±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 Intermolecular’s 54.5 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 19.6 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BVW Holding · near

55
Intermolecular · this assignee

55
Liquid Wire · near

55
CompoSecure · near

55
General Motors · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intermolecular's Innovation Score is 54.5/100 (top 8% 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 Intermolecular?

Each dot is one of Intermolecular’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). Intermolecular’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Intermolecular's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Intermolecular, Inc. received 3 grants versus 288 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 182 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 1. Lead class H10N accounts for 42.3% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (#1,430) and Dialog Semiconductor Inc. (#1,438).

University of Was…

293
Board OF Supervis…

292
Grohe

292
Group14

292
National Research…

291
Poulsen Roser A/S

291
Tomy

291
Intermolecular ◀

291
Dialog Semiconduc…

290

What this shows Intermolecular holds 291 patents at rank #1,434, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intermolecular

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,434 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intermolecular, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices), Intermolecular ranks #18 of 891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

BVW Holding AG 55 Liquid Wire Inc. 55 General Motors LLC 55 CompoSecure, LLC 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Ledvance GMBH 16.5 avg EndoChoice, Inc. 16.5 avg Oberthur Technologies 16.5 avg Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC 16.5 avg

Intermolecular's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Intermolecular, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	182	62.5%
2016	94	32.3%
2017	11	3.8%
2019	1	0.3%
2020	2	0.7%
2021	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Intermolecular, Inc. patent most?

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 123

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 117

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 109

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 73

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 66

G11C - Static Stores 42

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 27

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 19

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 14

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 9

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

Top 15 of 55 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

Intermolecular, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Intermolecular, Inc.'s lead technology class is H10N (Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 42.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10N
Ranked #1,434 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intermolecular, Inc. against University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.5/100 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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