Where does Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH ranks #386 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 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH hold?

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH holds 1,141 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 123 technology areas.

What is Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's Innovation Score?

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH has an Innovation Score of 62.6 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 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH focus on?

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 888 patents, ranking #2 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 123 CPC subclasses total.

Is Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's patents?

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's patents average 15.3 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 Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 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

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,141 granted patents across 123 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Osram ranks #386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,141 patents across 123 technology areas.

#386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.6/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R386 · Foreign Corporation #386 · 1,141 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Northrop Grumman…
CPC-WIDE H10H · 123 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (±1 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 Osram’s 62.6 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 24.3 pts (39%) Velocity 4.1 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hughes Network Systems · near

63
Osram Opto Semicondu… · this assignee

63
Panasonic Holdings · near

63
Saint-gobain… · near

63
STMicroelectronics… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Osram's Innovation Score is 62.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Osram?

Each dot is one of Osram’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). Osram’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Osram's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH received 235 grants versus 823 in 2015–2019 (-71% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 195 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 21. Lead class H10H accounts for 77.8% of the portfolio across 123 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (#382) and Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology (#390).

Osram's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH moved from 266 to 164 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 #2,406. See the growth leaderboard.

Cypress Semicondu…

1,149
Ciena

1,148
Jvckenwood

1,148
Hitachi Astemo

1,145
Osram Opto Semico… ◀

1,141
Northrop Grumman…

1,140
Cadence Design Sy…

1,138
Aisin Seiki

1,137
Korea Institute O…

1,136

What this shows Osram holds 1,141 patents at rank #386, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Osram

By rank, the assignees closest to #386 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Osram, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Osram ranks #2 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Panasonic Holdings Corporation 63 Hughes Network Systems, LLC 63 Saint-gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. 63 STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Uchicago Argonne, LLC 15.3 avg Oshkosh Defense, LLC 15.3 avg Technische UNIVERSITÄT Berlin 15.3 avg Beijing Geekplus Technology Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg

Osram'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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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	153	13.4%
2016	162	14.2%
2017	184	16.1%
2018	129	11.3%
2019	195	17.1%
2020	50	4.4%
2021	21	1.8%
2022	37	3.2%
2023	43	3.8%
2024	84	7.4%
2025partial year	83	7.3%

Which technologies does Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 888

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 634

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 155

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 153

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 110

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 81

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 63

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 60

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 53

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 49

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 46

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 40

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 38

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 35

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 31

Top 15 of 123 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

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH's lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH against Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.6/100 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.

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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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