Where does Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. ranks #47 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 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. hold?

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. holds 7,844 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 171 technology areas.

What is Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 71.1 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 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. focus on?

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices) with 4,393 patents, ranking #4 of 1,402 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 171 CPC subclasses total.

Is Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -48% 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 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.8 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 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory 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

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7,844 granted patents across 171 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: H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Semiconductor ranks #47 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7,844 patents across 171 technology areas.

#47
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.1/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47 · Foreign Corporation #47 · 7,844 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 7.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #47/49,997
NEAR-PEER Halliburton Energy…
CPC-WIDE H10D · 171 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (±17 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 Semiconductor’s 71.1 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 31.0 pts (44%) Velocity 5.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pioneer Hi-bred… · near

71
Visa International… · near

71
Yangtze Memory · near

71
Semiconductor… · this assignee

71
Stmicroelectronics… · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Semiconductor's Innovation Score is 71.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Semiconductor?

Each dot is one of Semiconductor’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). Semiconductor’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Semiconductor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. received 2,549 grants versus 4,900 in 2015–2019 (-48% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 1,177 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 419. Lead class H10D accounts for 56% of the portfolio across 171 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (#43) and Oracle International Corporation (#51).

Semiconductor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. moved from 1,769 to 1,496 grants (0.85x 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 #1,672. See the growth leaderboard.

Sharp

8,041
Tencent Technolog…

8,039
Murata Manufactur…

8,029
Brother Kogyo

7,931
Semiconductor Ene… ◀

7,844
Halliburton Energ…

7,827
Korea Advanced In…

7,452
EMC IP Holding

7,359
Oracle Internatio…

7,343

What this shows Semiconductor holds 7,844 patents at rank #47, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Semiconductor

By rank, the assignees closest to #47 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Semiconductor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), Semiconductor ranks #4 of 1,402 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. 71 Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc. 71 Visa International Service Association 71 Stmicroelectronics (GRAND OUEST) SAS 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Versum Materials US, LLC 15.8 avg The United States of America, as represented by Secretary of the Navy 15.8 avg Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG 15.8 avg Novartis AG 15.8 avg

Semiconductor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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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Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,177	15.0%
2016	1,109	14.1%
2017	1,016	13.0%
2018	882	11.2%
2019	716	9.1%
2020	560	7.1%
2021	493	6.3%
2022	419	5.3%
2023	486	6.2%
2024	591	7.5%
2025partial year	395	5.0%

Which technologies does Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 4,393

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 2,381

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1,630

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1,521

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 1,397

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1,004

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 909

G11C - Static Stores 907

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 822

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 536

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 459

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 456

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 440

H03K - Pulse Technique 389

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 380

Top 15 of 171 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

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #47 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. against Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.1/100 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

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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

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