Where does Melexis Technologies NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Melexis Technologies NV ranks #2,692 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 Melexis Technologies NV hold?

Melexis Technologies NV holds 144 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Melexis Technologies NV's Innovation Score?

Melexis Technologies NV has an Innovation Score of 55.5 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 Melexis Technologies NV focus on?

Melexis Technologies NV's top technology area is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables) with 34 patents, ranking #181 of 3,424 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Melexis Technologies NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Melexis Technologies NV's recent grant velocity is -1% 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 Melexis Technologies NV's patents?

Melexis Technologies NV's patents average 15.2 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 Melexis Technologies NV 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

Melexis Technologies NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 144 granted patents across 55 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: G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Melexis ranks #2,692 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 144 patents across 55 technology areas.

#2,692
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2692 · Foreign Corporation #2,692 · 144 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 144 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,692/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harley-Davidson Motor
CPC-WIDE G01R · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc. (±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 Melexis’s 55.5 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 17.2 pts (31%) Velocity 4.2 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B&W Group · near

55
Melexis · this assignee

55
The United States… · near

55
Universal Tech · near

55
Yamazaki Mazak · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Melexis's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (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 Melexis?

Each dot is one of Melexis’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). Melexis’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Melexis's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Melexis Technologies NV received 66 grants versus 67 in 2015–2019 (-1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 8. Lead class G01R accounts for 23.6% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Huntsman International LLC (#2,688) and Pilkington Group Limited (#2,696).

Melexis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Melexis Technologies NV moved from 53 to 33 grants (0.62x 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 #2,382. See the growth leaderboard.

Huntsman Internat…

144
Harley-davidson M…

144
Korea Aerospace R…

144
Kodak Alaris

144
Mitel Networks

144
Nbcuniversal Media

144
Nidec Tosok

144
Pilkington Group

144
Melexis ◀

144

What this shows Melexis holds 144 patents at rank #2,692, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Melexis

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,692 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01R (Measuring Electric Variables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Melexis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01R (Measuring Electric Variables), Melexis ranks #181 of 3,424 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 55 Yamazaki Mazak Corporation 55 B&W Group Ltd. 55 Universal Tech Corporation 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 15.2 avg TRW Automotive U.S. LLC 15.2 avg Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. 15.2 avg

Melexis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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.

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Melexis Technologies NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	6.9%
2016	9	6.3%
2017	15	10.4%
2018	13	9.0%
2019	20	13.9%
2020	17	11.8%
2021	16	11.1%
2022	14	9.7%
2023	11	7.6%
2024	8	5.6%
2025partial year	11	7.6%

Which technologies does Melexis Technologies NV patent most?

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 34

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 22

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 21

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 21

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 12

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 11

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 11

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 10

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 8

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 7

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

Melexis Technologies NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Melexis Technologies NV's lead technology class is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables), 23.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01R
Ranked #2,692 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Melexis Technologies NV against Huntsman International LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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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