Where does Soitec rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Soitec ranks #1,273 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 Soitec hold?

Soitec holds 332 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Soitec's Innovation Score?

Soitec has an Innovation Score of 69.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Soitec focus on?

Soitec's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 263 patents, ranking #81 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Is Soitec's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Soitec's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Soitec's patents?

Soitec's patents average 17.4 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.

How is the Soitec 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

Soitec

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 332 granted patents across 50 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, Soitec ranks #1,273 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 332 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,273
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.4/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1273 · Foreign Corporation #1,273 · 332 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 332 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,273/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cartier International
CPC-WIDE H01L · 50 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cartier International AG (±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 Soitec’s 69.4 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 20.1 pts (29%) Velocity 13.9 pts (20%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Soitec · this assignee

69
Sonos · near

69
Hyundai Transys · near

69
Hewlett Packard… · near

69
Zoom Video Communica… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Soitec's Innovation Score is 69.4/100 (top 1% 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 Soitec?

Each dot is one of Soitec’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). Soitec’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Soitec's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Soitec received 129 grants versus 173 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 57 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 10. Lead class H01L accounts for 79.2% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mentor Graphics Corporation (#1,269) and Jiangsu University (#1,277).

Soitec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Soitec moved from 47 to 98 grants (2.08x 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 #193. See the growth leaderboard.

Mentor Graphics

333
Toyo Seikan

333
Cartier Internati…

332
ICU Medical

332
Toyobo

332
Soitec ◀

332
Columbia Insurance

331
Gpcp IP Holdings

331
Jiangsu University

331

What this shows Soitec holds 332 patents at rank #1,273, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Soitec

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,273 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Soitec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Soitec ranks #81 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Sonos, Inc. 69 Hyundai Transys Inc. 69 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP 69 Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha 17.4 avg Visa International Service Association 17.4 avg Theranos IP Company, LLC 17.4 avg Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC 17.4 avg

Soitec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Soitec patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	57	17.2%
2016	41	12.3%
2017	36	10.8%
2018	23	6.9%
2019	16	4.8%
2020	10	3.0%
2021	21	6.3%
2022	25	7.5%
2023	26	7.8%
2024	47	14.2%
2025partial year	30	9.0%

Which technologies does Soitec patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 263

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 86

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 47

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 47

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 37

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 35

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 31

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 23

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 21

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 13

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 13

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 12

G11C - Static Stores 10

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

Top 15 of 50 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

Soitec's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Soitec's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #1,273 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Soitec against Mentor Graphics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.4/100 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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