Where does Pixelworks, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pixelworks, Inc. ranks #6,827 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 Pixelworks, Inc. hold?

Pixelworks, Inc. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Pixelworks, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pixelworks, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.7 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pixelworks, Inc. focus on?

Pixelworks, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 32 patents, ranking #546 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pixelworks, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pixelworks, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Pixelworks, Inc.'s patents?

Pixelworks, Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 Pixelworks, 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

Pixelworks, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 5 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pixelworks ranks #6,827 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 5 technology areas.

#6,827
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.7/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6827 · US Corporation #6,827 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,827/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neutron Holdings
CPC-NARROW H04N · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neutron Holdings, 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 Pixelworks’s 31.7 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 13.5 pts (43%) Velocity 2.0 pts (6%) Breadth 7.9 pts (25%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ChipMOS · near

32
Hilite Germany · near

32
Baicells · near

32
Pixelworks · this assignee

32
Touchplus Information · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pixelworks's Innovation Score is 31.7/100 (39th percentile 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 Pixelworks?

Each dot is one of Pixelworks’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). Pixelworks’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Pixelworks's grants concentrate

Pixelworks, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 65.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Pixelworks sits between Neutron Holdings, Inc. and QlikTech International AB.

Pixelworks's three-year grant acceleration

Pixelworks, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Neutron Holdings

49
Otsuka Chemical

49
Oerlikon Textile…

49
Pelco

49
Picarro

49
Principia Biophar…

49
Pulmonx

49
Qliktech Internat…

49
Pixelworks ◀

49

What this shows Pixelworks holds 49 patents at rank #6,826, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pixelworks

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,826 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pixelworks, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Pixelworks ranks #546 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Baicells Technologies Co. Ltd. 32 Touchplus Information Corp. 32 ChipMOS Technologies Inc. 32 Hilite Germany GmbH 32

Pixelworks's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% 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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Pixelworks, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	10.2%
2016	13	26.5%
2017	11	22.4%
2018	6	12.2%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	3	6.1%
2021	1	2.0%
2022	2	4.1%
2023	1	2.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Pixelworks, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 32

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 29

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Pixelworks, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pixelworks, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 65.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #6,827 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pixelworks, Inc. against Neutron Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.7/100 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

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