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Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2023. 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, Silicon ranks #16,367 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 3 technology areas.

#16,367
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.5/100)
12.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16367 · Foreign Corporation #16,367 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
  • MID-PACK #16,367/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Yile…
  • CPC-NARROW G06F · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 34.5/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2023 · 4y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Yile Dynamic Technology 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.

How Silicon’s 34.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Silicon

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Silicon's Innovation Score is 34.5/100 (48th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Silicon?

Each dot is one of Silicon’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). Silicon’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Silicon vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 17.917.91818.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Shenzhen Yile Dynamic Technology Co., Ltd - 18, 1.78Shenzhen Yile Dyn…Shield Restraint Systems, Inc. - 18, 17.5Shield Restraint…Sightline Payments LLC - 18, 16.39Sightline PaymentsSilicon Light Machines Corporation - 18, 17.78Silicon Light Mac…SingleStore, Inc. - 18, 17.83SinglestoreSitePro, Inc. - 18, 25.22SiteproSiya, Inc. - 18, 1.72SiyaSnow Corporation - 18, 16.5SnowSilicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited - 18, 12.83Silicon Motion Te…
Silicon vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Silicon's grants concentrate

Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 94.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Silicon sits between Shenzhen Yile Dynamic Technology Co., Ltd and Snow Corporation.

Silicon's three-year grant acceleration

Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Who files at Silicon's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Silicon holds 18 patents at rank #16,380, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Silicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,380 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Silicon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 2 11.1%
2021 5 27.8%
2022 9 50.0%
2023 2 11.1%

Which technologies does Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited patent most?

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 94.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
  • Ranked #16,367 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Silicon Motion Technology (Hong Kong) Limited against Shenzhen Yile Dynamic Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 34.5/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.