Where does Pixart Imaging Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pixart Imaging Inc. ranks #357 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 Pixart Imaging Inc. hold?

Pixart Imaging Inc. holds 1,212 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 119 technology areas.

What is Pixart Imaging Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pixart Imaging Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.9 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%).

What technology areas does Pixart Imaging Inc. focus on?

Pixart Imaging Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 550 patents. Grants appear in 119 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pixart Imaging Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pixart Imaging Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Pixart Imaging Inc.'s patents?

Pixart Imaging Inc.'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 Pixart Imaging 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 Foreign Corporation

Pixart Imaging Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,212 granted patents across 119 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, Pixart ranks #357 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,212 patents across 119 technology areas.

#357
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.9/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R357 · Foreign Corporation #357 · 1,212 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #357/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rolls-Royce
CPC-WIDE G06F · 119 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rolls-Royce 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lam Research · near

66
Assa Abloy Entrance… · near

66
Pixart Imaging · this assignee

66
Yahoo Assets · near

66
Alarm com Incorporated · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pixart's Innovation Score is 65.9/100 (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.

How Pixart's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Pixart Imaging Inc. received 626 grants versus 487 in 2015–2019 (+29% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 148 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 80. Lead class G06F accounts for 45.4% of the portfolio across 119 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mahle International GmbH (#353) and X Development LLC (#361).

Pixart's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pixart Imaging Inc. moved from 359 to 390 grants (1.09x 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 #989. See the growth leaderboard.

Mahle Internation…

1,224
Imagination

1,222
Beijing Baidu Net…

1,221
Rolls-royce

1,213
Pixart Imaging ◀

1,212
Volvo CAR

1,206
Magna

1,198
The United States…

1,197
X Development

1,197

What this shows Pixart holds 1,212 patents at rank #357, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pixart

By rank, the assignees closest to #357 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Yahoo Assets LLC 66 Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB 66 Alarm.com Incorporated 66 Lam Research Corporation 66

Similar claim depth

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

Wobben Properties GmbH 15.2 avg Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC 15.2 avg University of Houston System 15.2 avg AMS International AG 15.2 avg

Pixart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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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Pixart Imaging Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	81	6.7%
2016	114	9.4%
2017	80	6.6%
2018	89	7.3%
2019	123	10.1%
2020	119	9.8%
2021	117	9.7%
2022	111	9.2%
2023	148	12.2%
2024	131	10.8%
2025partial year	99	8.2%

Which technologies does Pixart Imaging Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 550

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 283

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 158

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 158

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 104

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 90

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 84

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 75

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 57

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 49

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 47

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 44

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 43

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 43

H03K - Pulse Technique 42

Top 15 of 119 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#357

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

65.9 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

Pixart Imaging Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pixart Imaging Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 45.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #357 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pixart Imaging Inc. against Mahle International GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.9/100 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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