Where does Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. ranks #3,350 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 Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. hold?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. holds 111 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'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 Kulicke and Soffa Industries, 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

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. focus on?

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 96 patents. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 111 granted patents across 29 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, Kulicke ranks #3,350 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 111 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,350
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3350 · US Corporation #3,350 · 111 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 111 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,350/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Goldman Sachs &
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (±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
Grabango · near

57
Kulicke and Soffa… · this assignee

57
Tyco · near

57
Uacj · near

57
Nuovo Pignone… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kulicke's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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.

Where Kulicke's grants concentrate

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 86.5% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (16 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, Kulicke sits between Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and NeuroPace, Inc..

Kulicke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. moved from 27 to 38 grants (1.41x 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 #515. See the growth leaderboard.

Goldman Sachs &

111
Hongqisheng Preci…

111
Imperial Innovati…

111
Janssen Sciences…

111
Macneil IP

111
Musc Foundation f…

111
Millerknoll

111
Neuropace

111
Kulicke and Soffa… ◀

111

What this shows Kulicke holds 111 patents at rank #3,350, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kulicke

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,350 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Uacj Corporation 57 Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd 57 Grabango Co. 57 Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. 57

Similar claim depth

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

PlusAI, Inc. 19.8 avg CVDevices, LLC 19.8 avg Rapiscan Systems, Inc. 19.8 avg Excalibur IP, LLC 19.8 avg

Kulicke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	6.3%
2016	8	7.2%
2017	10	9.0%
2018	8	7.2%
2019	9	8.1%
2020	9	8.1%
2021	9	8.1%
2022	16	14.4%
2023	9	8.1%
2024	13	11.7%
2025partial year	13	11.7%

Which technologies does Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 96

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 62

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

B01D - Separation 1

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,350

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.6 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

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 86.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #3,350 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. against Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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