Where does Silicon Works Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Silicon Works Co., Ltd. ranks #1,259 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 Silicon Works Co., Ltd. hold?

Silicon Works Co., Ltd. holds 337 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Silicon Works Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.2 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%).

Is Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +106% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.7 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 Silicon Works 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

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Silicon Works Co., Ltd. focus on?

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information) with 200 patents. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 337 granted patents across 43 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: G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Silicon ranks #1,259 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 337 patents across 43 technology areas.

#1,259
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.2/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +106%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1259 · Foreign Corporation #1,259 · 337 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 337 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,259/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ajinomoto
CPC-WIDE G09G · 43 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +106% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (±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
Commonwealth… · near

62
Silicon Works · this assignee

62
Sonova · near

62
Total SE · near

62
Celanese International · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Silicon's Innovation Score is 62.2/100 (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.

Where Silicon's grants concentrate

Silicon Works Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 59.3% of grants classified under G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (87 grants) versus a trough of 17 in 2015. By volume, Silicon sits between Universal Entertainment Corporation and Cummins Emission Solutions Inc..

Silicon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Silicon Works Co., Ltd. moved from 98 to 148 grants (1.51x 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 #445. See the growth leaderboard.

Universal Enterta…

338
AO Kaspersky Lab

337
Ajinomoto

337
Onetrust

337
SNU R&DB Foundati…

337
Silicon Works ◀

337
Avery Dennison

336
King Slide Works

336
Cummins Emission…

335

What this shows Silicon holds 337 patents at rank #1,259, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Silicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,259 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Sonova AG 62 Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation 62 Total SE 62 Celanese International Corporation 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 14.7 avg Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen 14.7 avg Areva NP 14.7 avg Innocom Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 14.7 avg

Silicon'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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Silicon Works Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	5.0%
2016	28	8.3%
2017	19	5.6%
2018	20	5.9%
2019	24	7.1%
2020	29	8.6%
2021	45	13.4%
2022	87	25.8%
2023	34	10.1%
2024	27	8.0%
2025partial year	7	2.1%

Which technologies does Silicon Works Co., Ltd. patent most?

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 200

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 75

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 43

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 22

H03K - Pulse Technique 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 11

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

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

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 8

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 8

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 7

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 7

Top 15 of 43 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,259

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.2 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

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Silicon Works Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information), 59.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09G
Ranked #1,259 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Silicon Works Co., Ltd. against Universal Entertainment Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.2/100 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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