Where does PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. ranks #2,829 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 PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. hold?

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. holds 136 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.3 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 PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. focus on?

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 118 patents, ranking #26 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s patents?

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.5 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 PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. 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

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 136 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Playnitride ranks #2,829 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 136 patents across 21 technology areas.

#2,829
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.3/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2829 · Foreign Corporation #2,829 · 136 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 136 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,829/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nihon Micronics
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 21 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics (±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 Playnitride’s 61.3 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 17.0 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 16.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bendix Commercial… · near

61
IX Innovation · near

61
Lenovo Global… · near

61
PlayNitride Display · this assignee

61
Sika Technology · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Playnitride's Innovation Score is 61.3/100 (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 Playnitride?

Each dot is one of Playnitride’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). Playnitride’s own 13.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Playnitride's grants concentrate

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 86.8% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (38 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Playnitride sits between Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics and Sion Power Corporation.

Playnitride's three-year grant acceleration

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. shows 94 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Nihon Micronics

136
Makino Milling Ma…

136
NOF

136
Parade

136
Shell USA

136
SK Chemicals

136
Syracuse Universi…

136
Sion Power

136
Playnitride Displ… ◀

136

What this shows PlayNitride holds 136 patents at rank #2,829, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PlayNitride

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,829 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PlayNitride, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), PlayNitride ranks #26 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC 61 Sika Technology AG 61 IX Innovation LLC 61 Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Polytronics Technology Corp. 13.5 avg GE Lighting Solutions LLC 13.5 avg Paramount BED Co., Ltd. 13.5 avg Techtronic Cordless GP 13.5 avg

Playnitride'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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	0.7%
2021	17	12.5%
2022	28	20.6%
2023	28	20.6%
2024	38	27.9%
2025partial year	24	17.6%

Which technologies does PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 118

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 101

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 22

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 5

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

Top 15 of 21 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

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 86.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #2,829 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd. against Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.3/100 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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