Where does Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #597 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 Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. holds 743 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 308 patents. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.5 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 Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics 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

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 743 granted patents across 63 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shanghai ranks #597 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 743 patents across 63 technology areas.

#597
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R597 · Foreign Corporation #597 · 743 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 743 grants
TOP-DECILE #597/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nuance Communications
CPC-WIDE G06F · 63 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nuance Communications, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Helicopters · near

63
Ofinno · near

63
Trustees OF Boston… · near

63
Shanghai Tianma Micro- · this assignee

62
Shimadzu · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shanghai's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (top 2% 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.

How Shanghai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. received 312 grants versus 379 in 2015–2019 (-18% equal-window velocity, at median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 121 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 25. Lead class G06F accounts for 41.5% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd. (#593) and Denso International America, Inc. (#601).

Shanghai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. moved from 253 to 180 grants (0.71x 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 #2,113. See the growth leaderboard.

Shenzhen Goodix T…

753
Spigen Korea

749
The Toronto-domin…

748
Steering Solution…

747
Shanghai Tianma M… ◀

743
Nuance Communicat…

740
Zoll Medical

740
Lexmark Internati…

737
Denso Internation…

736

What this shows Shanghai holds 743 patents at rank #597, 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 #597 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 (62 here).

Shimadzu Corporation 62 Ofinno, LLC 63 Airbus Helicopters 63 Trustees OF Boston University 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

The Penn State Research Foundation 16.5 avg Appotronics Corporation Limited 16.5 avg Arlanxeo Deutschland GmbH 16.5 avg GE Hybrid Technologies, LLC 16.5 avg

Shanghai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	3.4%
2016	52	7.0%
2017	97	13.1%
2018	84	11.3%
2019	121	16.3%
2020	86	11.6%
2021	46	6.2%
2022	44	5.9%
2023	66	8.9%
2024	70	9.4%
2025partial year	52	7.0%

Which technologies does Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 308

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 266

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 203

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 163

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 110

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 80

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 55

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 44

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 44

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 35

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 30

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 22

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 17

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 17

Top 15 of 63 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#597

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.5 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 Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 41.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #597 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. against Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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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