PlainPatent
USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 106,890 granted patents across 435 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).

RSS updates for this company
Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Samsung Electronics Co. ranks #1 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume - 106,890 grants spanning 435 technology areas.

#1
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 1%
by Innovation Score (81.4/100)
16.1
avg claims per patent
+2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1 · Foreign Corporation #1 · 106,890 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-ELITE · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MEGA 107K grants
  • TOP-DECILE #1/49,997
  • CLEAR-GAP International…
  • CPC-BROAD G06F · 435 areas
  • INNOV-ELITE 81.4/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-FLAT +2% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: International Business Machines Corporation (±33,964 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 Samsung’s 81.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Samsung

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Samsung's Innovation Score is 81.4/100 (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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Samsung?

Each dot is one of Samsung’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). Samsung’s own 16.1 claims/patent is at or below the 19.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Samsung vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 20,00040,00060,00080,000100,000120,000 1015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - 106890, 16.08SamsungInternational Business Machines Corporation - 72926, 15.65International Bus…Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - 34378, 15.09CanonLG Electronics Inc. - 32607, 12.06LGTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. - 31041, 19.73Taiwan Semiconduc…Apple Inc. - 30560, 19.08AppleQualcomm Incorporated - 30354, 29.09Qualcomm Incorpor…Intel Corporation - 27498, 20.03IntelMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC - 24392, 19.3Microsoft Technol…
Samsung vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Samsung's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. received 49,694 grants versus 48,780 in 2015–2019 (+2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 10,315 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 9,279. Lead class G06F accounts for 20.1% of the portfolio across 435 subclasses.

Samsung's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. moved from 29,548 to 30,117 grants (1.02x 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 #1,134. See the growth leaderboard.

How does Samsung compare?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus the largest corporate holders, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Samsung sits among the ten largest US patent holders, a tier dominated by electronics and semiconductor multinationals.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Other top-10 patent holders

The other largest US assignees by granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Samsung, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Samsung ranks #2 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (81 here).

KIA Corporation 81 Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC 81 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 82 Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 81

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

NuVasive, Inc. 16.1 avg Juul Labs, Inc. 16.1 avg Victaulic Company 16.1 avg Rakuten Mobile, Inc. 16.1 avg

Samsung's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

81 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

8,0008,5009,0009,50010,00010,500 20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025 8,416
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.

View data table
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 9,443 8.8%
2016 10,121 9.5%
2017 9,966 9.3%
2018 9,279 8.7%
2019 9,971 9.3%
2020 9,757 9.1%
2021 9,820 9.2%
2022 9,733 9.1%
2023 10,069 9.4%
2024 10,315 9.7%
2025partial year 8,416 7.9%

Which technologies does Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 435 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 20.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
  • Ranked #1 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a top-10 global holder - see how it stacks up against International Business Machines Corporation, another of the largest patent portfolios. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 81.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.