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Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences

Q: Where does Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences ranks #4,982 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 Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences 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 - 70 granted patents across 48 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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According to USPTO PatentsView, Shanghai ranks #4,982 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 48 technology areas.

#4,982
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4982 · Foreign Corporation #4,982 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,982/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pelican Imaging
CPC-WIDE H01L · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pelican Imaging Corporation (±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 Shanghai’s 54.0 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 14.7 pts (27%) Velocity 8.3 pts (15%) Breadth 24.5 pts (45%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flex · near

54
Industry-academic… · near

54
Intelligent… · near

54
Merry · near

54
Shanghai Institute… · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shanghai's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 Shanghai?

Each dot is one of Shanghai’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). Shanghai’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 19.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Shanghai's grants concentrate

Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Shanghai sits between Pelican Imaging Corporation and St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico LLC.

Shanghai's three-year grant acceleration

Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Pelican Imaging

70
Rf360 Singapore P…

70
Raffel Systems

70
SF Motors

70
Spts

70
Stmicroelectronic…

70
Senseware

70
St Jude Medical P…

70
Shanghai Institut… ◀

70

What this shows Shanghai holds 70 patents at rank #4,981, 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 #4,981 in granted patent volume.

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

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). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Shanghai ranks #759 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation Gyeongsang National University 54 Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. 54 Flex Ltd. 54 Merry Electronics Co., Ltd. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.7 here).

National University Corporation Chiba University 10.7 avg Screen Holdings Co., Ltd. 10.7 avg Taylor Made Group, LLC 10.7 avg Korea Institute OF Energy Research 10.7 avg

Shanghai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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 Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	7.1%
2016	7	10.0%
2017	9	12.9%
2018	5	7.1%
2019	6	8.6%
2020	8	11.4%
2021	2	2.9%
2022	6	8.6%
2023	8	11.4%
2024	6	8.6%
2025partial year	8	11.4%

Which technologies does Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 14

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 8

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 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G11C - Static Stores 7

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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 3

Top 15 of 48 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

Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #4,982 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shanghai Institute OF Microsystem AND Information Technology Chinese Academy OF Sciences against Pelican Imaging Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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

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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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