Where does Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. ranks #1,624 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 Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. hold?

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. holds 254 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.1 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. focus on?

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 178 patents. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.7 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 Shin-etsu Handotai 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

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 254 granted patents across 58 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shin-etsu ranks #1,624 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 254 patents across 58 technology areas.

#1,624
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 8.7
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1624 · Foreign Corporation #1,624 · 254 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 254 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,624/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitsui Mining &…
CPC-WIDE H01L · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (±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
BenQ Materials · near

52
Cambridge Glycoscience · near

52
Makinarocks · near

52
Rapiscan Systems · near

52
Shin-etsu Handotai · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shin-etsu's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (top 10% 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 Shin-etsu's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. received 77 grants versus 164 in 2015–2019 (-53% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 40 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 7. Lead class H01L accounts for 70.1% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (#1,620) and Home Depot Product Authority, LLC (#1,628).

Shin-etsu's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. moved from 79 to 33 grants (0.42x 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 #2,847. See the growth leaderboard.

Merit Medical Sys…

255
Nanjing University

255
Z124

255
Mitsui Mining & S…

254
Shin-etsu Handotai ◀

254
Aruba Networks

253
E Mishan & Sons

253
Heidelberger Druc…

253
Home Depot Produc…

253

What this shows Shin-etsu holds 254 patents at rank #1,624, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shin-etsu

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,624 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Shin-etsu's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Rapiscan Systems, Inc. 52 BenQ Materials Corporation 52 Makinarocks Co., Ltd. 52 Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.7 here).

Daifuku Co., Ltd. 8.7 avg Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company 8.7 avg Jiangsu University 8.7 avg Spin Master Ltd. 8.7 avg

Shin-etsu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	9.8%
2016	31	12.2%
2017	33	13.0%
2018	40	15.7%
2019	35	13.8%
2020	28	11.0%
2021	16	6.3%
2022	14	5.5%
2023	7	2.8%
2024	12	4.7%
2025partial year	13	5.1%

Which technologies does Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 178

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 82

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 66

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 49

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 25

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 18

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

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 10

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 8

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 6

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 5

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 5

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,624

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.1 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

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 70.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #1,624 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. against Merit Medical Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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

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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