Is Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation

Q: Where does Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation ranks #530 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 848 granted patents across 61 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Semiconductor ranks #530 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 848 patents across 61 technology areas.

#530
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R530 · Foreign Corporation #530 · 848 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 848 grants
TOP-DECILE #530/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Microchip Technology…
CPC-WIDE H01L · 61 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Microchip Technology Incorporated (±3 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 61.0 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 23.3 pts (38%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nova Chemicals… · near

61
UNIST(ULSAN… · near

61
BorgWarner US · near

61
Semiconductor… · this assignee

61
Tesla · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Semiconductor's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (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 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 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 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 Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation received 455 grants versus 380 in 2015–2019 (+20% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 192 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 24. Lead class H01L accounts for 69% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Case Western Reserve University (#526) and Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (#534).

Semiconductor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation moved from 429 to 218 grants (0.51x 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 #2,678. See the growth leaderboard.

Case Western Rese…

856
W L Gore & Associ…

856
Philips Lighting…

855
Microchip Technol…

851
Semiconductor Man… ◀

848
Open Invention Ne…

845
Hilti Aktiengesel…

842
Nippon Steel & Su…

842
Chongqing BOE Opt…

841

What this shows Semiconductor holds 848 patents at rank #530, 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 #530 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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 H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Semiconductor ranks #43 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Tesla, Inc. 61 BorgWarner US Technologies LLC 61 Nova Chemicals (International) S.A. 61 UNIST(ULSAN National Institute OF Science AND TECHNOLOGY) 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

GE Precision Healthcare LLC 15.5 avg Funai Electric Co., Ltd. 15.5 avg Hisense International Co., Ltd. 15.5 avg Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. 15.5 avg

Semiconductor'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 · 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 Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	4.7%
2016	24	2.8%
2017	32	3.8%
2018	92	10.8%
2019	192	22.6%
2020	141	16.6%
2021	96	11.3%
2022	101	11.9%
2023	82	9.7%
2024	35	4.1%
2025partial year	13	1.5%

Which technologies does Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 585

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 572

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 121

G11C - Static Stores 53

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 28

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 25

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

H03K - Pulse Technique 22

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 19

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 17

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 16

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 12

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 10

Top 15 of 61 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 Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #530 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation against Case Western Reserve University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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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