Where does Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ranks #832 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 Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. hold?

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. holds 552 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 73 technology areas.

What is Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. focus on?

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 142 patents, ranking #132 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 73 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.2 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 Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 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

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 552 granted patents across 73 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, Lapis ranks #832 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 552 patents across 73 technology areas.

#832
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 9.2
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R832 · Foreign Corporation #832 · 552 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 552 grants
TOP-DECILE #832/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Walters Gardens
CPC-WIDE H01L · 73 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Walters Gardens, Inc. (±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 Lapis’s 55.6 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 21.8 pts (39%) Velocity 3.3 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AMP Robotics · near

56
Armada Systems · near

56
Lapis Semiconductor · this assignee

56
Oki Data · near

56
THE Scripps… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lapis's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 Lapis?

Each dot is one of Lapis’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). Lapis’s own 9.2 claims/patent is at or below the 11.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Lapis's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. received 232 grants versus 318 in 2015–2019 (-27% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 72 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 19. Lead class H01L accounts for 25.7% of the portfolio across 73 subclasses. Volume neighbours: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (#828) and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (#836).

Lapis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. moved from 204 to 100 grants (0.49x 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 #2,715. See the growth leaderboard.

Stmicroelectronic…

555
Sumitomo Heavy In…

555
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

555
Walters Gardens

554
Lapis Semiconduct… ◀

552
Gree Holdings

549
Alps Alpine

546
Inserm (Institut…

545
Max-planck-gesell…

544

What this shows Lapis holds 552 patents at rank #832, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lapis

By rank, the assignees closest to #832 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lapis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Lapis ranks #132 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Oki Data Corporation 56 THE Scripps Research Institute 56 AMP Robotics Corporation 56 Armada Systems Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.2 here).

YKK Corporation 9.2 avg NSK Ltd. 9.2 avg Wuhan University 9.2 avg Aruze Gaming America, Inc. 9.2 avg

Lapis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	65	11.8%
2016	57	10.3%
2017	66	12.0%
2018	58	10.5%
2019	72	13.0%
2020	64	11.6%
2021	68	12.3%
2022	41	7.4%
2023	40	7.2%
2024	19	3.4%
2025partial year	2	0.4%

Which technologies does Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 142

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 106

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 78

H03K - Pulse Technique 66

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 63

G11C - Static Stores 57

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 55

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 45

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 40

H04B - Transmission 27

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 27

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 25

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 24

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 23

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 21

Top 15 of 73 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

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 25.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #832 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. against STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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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