Is Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation's recent grant velocity is -25% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation

Q: Where does Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation ranks #3,238 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 Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing 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 - 116 granted patents across 29 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shanghai ranks #3,238 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 116 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,238
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.2/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3238 · Foreign Corporation #3,238 · 116 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 116 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,238/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Leonardo S P A
CPC-FOCUS H10D · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Leonardo S.P.A. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Phoenix Pioneer… · near

46
Husco Automotive… · near

46
Inglass S P A · near

46
Montefiore Medical… · near

46
Shanghai Huahong… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shanghai's Innovation Score is 46.2/100 (top 21% 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.

Where Shanghai's grants concentrate

Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Shanghai sits between Leonardo S.P.A. and Valmont Industries, Inc..

Shanghai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation moved from 33 to 21 grants (0.64x 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 #2,343. See the growth leaderboard.

Leonardo S P A

116
Macau University…

116
Peking University…

116
Polar Electro Oy

116
Terumo BCT

116
UCL Business

116
Unirac

116
Valmont Industries

116
Shanghai Huahong… ◀

116

What this shows Shanghai holds 116 patents at rank #3,238, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shanghai

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,238 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shanghai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Inglass S.P.A 46 Husco Automotive Holdings LLC 46 Montefiore Medical Center 46 Phoenix Pioneer Technology Co., Ltd. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

THE William M. Yarbrough Foundation 10.8 avg Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 10.8 avg Seco Tools AB 10.9 avg Sakata Seed Corporation 10.9 avg

Shanghai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	12.1%
2016	21	18.1%
2017	19	16.4%
2018	6	5.2%
2019	5	4.3%
2020	14	12.1%
2021	14	12.1%
2022	12	10.3%
2023	8	6.9%
2024	1	0.9%
2025partial year	2	1.7%

Which technologies does Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 58

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 37

G11C - Static Stores 34

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 19

H03K - Pulse Technique 10

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

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 4

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; 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 3

H03F - Amplifiers 2

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 2

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,238

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation's lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #3,238 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation against Leonardo S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.2/100 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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