Where does Monolithic 3D Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Monolithic 3D Inc. ranks #1,286 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 Monolithic 3D Inc. hold?

Monolithic 3D Inc. holds 329 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Monolithic 3D Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Monolithic 3D Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Monolithic 3D Inc. focus on?

Monolithic 3D Inc.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 283 patents, ranking #78 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Monolithic 3D Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Monolithic 3D Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +186% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Monolithic 3D Inc.'s patents?

Monolithic 3D Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Monolithic 3D 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

Monolithic 3D Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 329 granted patents across 28 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, Monolithic ranks #1,286 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 329 patents across 28 technology areas.

#1,286
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +186%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1286 · US Corporation #1,286 · 329 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 329 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,286/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KunShan Go-Visionox…
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 28 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +186% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd (±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 Monolithic’s 61.2 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 20.0 pts (33%) Velocity 10.9 pts (18%) Breadth 18.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Cleveland… · near

61
Agency FOR Defense… · near

61
Monolithic 3D · this assignee

61
Rakuten Symphony · near

61
The Yokohama Rubber · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Monolithic's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 Monolithic?

Each dot is one of Monolithic’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). Monolithic’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Monolithic's grants concentrate

Monolithic 3D Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 86% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (59 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2017. By volume, Monolithic sits between Southwest Research Institute and Safran.

Monolithic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Monolithic 3D Inc. moved from 93 to 152 grants (1.63x 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 #359. See the growth leaderboard.

Southwest Researc…

330
Thyssenkrupp Pres…

330
Kunshan Go-vision…

329
Mary KAY

329
Quest Diagnostics…

329
Sew-eurodrive & KG

329
Yissum Research D…

329
Monolithic 3D ◀

329
Safran

328

What this shows Monolithic holds 329 patents at rank #1,286, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Monolithic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,286 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Monolithic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Monolithic ranks #78 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Agency FOR Defense Development 61 The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 61 Rakuten Symphony, Inc. 61 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Finisar Corporation 19.4 avg Accenture Global Solutions Limited 19.4 avg Fyusion, Inc. 19.4 avg L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 19.4 avg

Monolithic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Monolithic 3D Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	4.6%
2016	13	4.0%
2017	12	3.6%
2018	20	6.1%
2019	19	5.8%
2020	15	4.6%
2021	59	17.9%
2022	54	16.4%
2023	43	13.1%
2024	55	16.7%
2025partial year	24	7.3%

Which technologies does Monolithic 3D Inc. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 283

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 267

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 227

G11C - Static Stores 118

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 91

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 54

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 31

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

H03K - Pulse Technique 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

Top 15 of 28 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

Monolithic 3D Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Monolithic 3D Inc.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 86% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #1,286 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Monolithic 3D Inc. against Southwest Research Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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