Where does Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. ranks #724 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 Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. hold?

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. holds 630 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

What is Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. focus on?

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 112 patents. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

Is Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s patents?

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 Maxim Integrated Products, 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

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 630 granted patents across 98 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Maxim ranks #724 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 630 patents across 98 technology areas.

#724
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.8/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R724 · US Corporation #724 · 630 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 630 grants
TOP-DECILE #724/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nestec
CPC-WIDE G06F · 98 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nestec S.A. (±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
Cadence Design Systems · near

63
DoorDash · near

63
Maxim Integrated… · this assignee

63
Waters · near

63
Renault S · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Maxim's Innovation Score is 62.8/100 (top 2% 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.

How Maxim's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. received 183 grants versus 435 in 2015–2019 (-58% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 142 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 31. Lead class G06F accounts for 17.8% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Steelcase Inc. (#720) and Spotify AB (#728).

Maxim's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. moved from 128 to 105 grants (0.82x 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 #1,769. See the growth leaderboard.

Steelcase

632
Continental Teves…

631
Covestro Deutschl…

631
Sikorsky Aircraft

631
Nestec

630
Maxim Integrated… ◀

630
Inventec (Pudong)…

629
Lennox Industries

629
Spotify AB

626

What this shows Maxim holds 630 patents at rank #724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Maxim

By rank, the assignees closest to #724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Waters Technologies Corporation 63 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 63 DoorDash, Inc. 63 Renault S.A.S. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Yandex Europe AG 16.8 avg Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. 16.8 avg Verint Systems Inc. 16.8 avg Itrec B.V. 16.8 avg

Maxim's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	142	22.5%
2016	106	16.8%
2017	83	13.2%
2018	54	8.6%
2019	50	7.9%
2020	36	5.7%
2021	42	6.7%
2022	35	5.6%
2023	39	6.2%
2024	31	4.9%
2025partial year	12	1.9%

Which technologies does Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 112

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 94

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 80

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 72

H04B - Transmission 53

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 45

H03K - Pulse Technique 43

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 36

H03F - Amplifiers 35

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 31

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 30

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 28

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 26

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 25

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 25

Top 15 of 98 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#724

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.8 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

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 17.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #724 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. against Steelcase Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.8/100 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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