Where does Novatek Microelectronics Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Novatek Microelectronics Corp. ranks #423 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 Novatek Microelectronics Corp. hold?

Novatek Microelectronics Corp. holds 1,071 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Novatek Microelectronics Corp. has an Innovation Score of 66.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +39% 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 Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s patents?

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s patents average 18.4 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 Novatek Microelectronics Corp. 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

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Novatek Microelectronics Corp. focus on?

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s top technology area is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information) with 479 patents, ranking #20 of 1,688 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,071 granted patents across 57 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: G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Novatek ranks #423 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,071 patents across 57 technology areas.

#423
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.8/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R423 · Foreign Corporation #423 · 1,071 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #423/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hitachi High-tech
CPC-WIDE G09G · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hitachi High-tech Corporation (±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 Novatek’s 66.8 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 24.1 pts (36%) Velocity 6.6 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allstate Insurance · near

67
ZF CV Systems Global · near

67
Airbus Operations · near

67
Novatek Microelectro… · this assignee

67
United States of… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Novatek's Innovation Score is 66.8/100 (top 1% 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 Novatek?

Each dot is one of Novatek’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). Novatek’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Novatek's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Novatek Microelectronics Corp. received 589 grants versus 424 in 2015–2019 (+39% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 151 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 70. Lead class G09G accounts for 44.7% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (#419) and Zoox, Inc. (#427).

Novatek's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Novatek Microelectronics Corp. moved from 337 to 334 grants (0.99x 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 #1,211. See the growth leaderboard.

Rohde & Schwarz &…

1,078
Fisher & Paykel H…

1,077
Screen Holdings

1,077
Hitachi High-tech

1,071
Novatek Microelec… ◀

1,071
Hitachi High-

1,068
Hoffmann-la Roche

1,065
Lawrence Livermor…

1,064
Zoox

1,064

What this shows Novatek holds 1,071 patents at rank #423, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Novatek

By rank, the assignees closest to #423 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Novatek, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…), Novatek ranks #20 of 1,688 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force 67 Airbus Operations Limited 67 Allstate Insurance Company 67 ZF CV Systems Global GmbH 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. 18.4 avg Panasonic Avionics Corporation 18.4 avg Cancer Research Technology Limited 18.4 avg Equifax Inc. 18.4 avg

Novatek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Novatek Microelectronics Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	109	10.2%
2016	83	7.7%
2017	70	6.5%
2018	80	7.5%
2019	82	7.7%
2020	104	9.7%
2021	151	14.1%
2022	136	12.7%
2023	107	10.0%
2024	91	8.5%
2025partial year	58	5.4%

Which technologies does Novatek Microelectronics Corp. patent most?

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 479

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 301

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 145

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 122

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 76

H03K - Pulse Technique 57

H03F - Amplifiers 54

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 42

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 39

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 33

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 32

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 30

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 24

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 22

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 20

Top 15 of 57 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

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.'s lead technology class is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information), 44.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09G
Ranked #423 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Novatek Microelectronics Corp. against Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.8/100 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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