Where does Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. ranks #9,873 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 Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. hold?

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.6 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 Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. focus on?

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H03F (Amplifiers) with 23 patents, ranking #65 of 791 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +575% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H03F (Amplifiers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smarter ranks #9,873 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 12 technology areas.

#9,873
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +575%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9873 · Foreign Corporation #9,873 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,873/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Schneider Electric…
CPC-FOCUS H03F · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +575% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Schneider Electric Software, LLC (±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 Smarter’s 52.6 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 12.1 pts (23%) Velocity 19.0 pts (36%) Breadth 12.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Expro North SEA · near

53
Hyland UK Operations · near

53
Manitowoc Crane… · near

53
Materialise · near

53
Smarter Microelectro… · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smarter's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Smarter?

Each dot is one of Smarter’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). Smarter’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Smarter's grants concentrate

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 71.9% of grants classified under H03F (Amplifiers). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Smarter sits between Schneider Electric Software, LLC and Sorrell Quarters, LLC.

Smarter's three-year grant acceleration

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. shows 20 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.

Schneider Electri…

32
Sekisui House

32
Shanghai Autoflig…

32
Sinteff TTO AS

32
SMR Inventec

32
Snipr

32
Soonchunhyang Uni…

32
Sorrell Quarters

32
Smarter Microelec… ◀

32

What this shows Smarter holds 32 patents at rank #9,867, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smarter

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,867 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H03F (Amplifiers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smarter, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H03F (Amplifiers), Smarter ranks #65 of 791 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Hyland UK Operations Limited 53 Manitowoc Crane Group France 53 Expro North SEA Limited 53 Materialise N.V. 53

Smarter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	6.3%
2017	2	6.3%
2020	4	12.5%
2021	3	9.4%
2022	6	18.8%
2023	4	12.5%
2024	10	31.3%
2025partial year	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. patent most?

H03F - Amplifiers 23

H04B - Transmission 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

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 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 1

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

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 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H03F (Amplifiers), 71.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H03F
Ranked #9,873 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. against Schneider Electric Software, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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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