Where does Stichting Imec Nederland rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stichting Imec Nederland ranks #3,050 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 Stichting Imec Nederland hold?

Stichting Imec Nederland holds 125 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Stichting Imec Nederland's Innovation Score?

Stichting Imec Nederland has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Stichting Imec Nederland focus on?

Stichting Imec Nederland's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 31 patents, ranking #603 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stichting Imec Nederland's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stichting Imec Nederland's recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Stichting Imec Nederland's patents?

Stichting Imec Nederland's patents average 16.0 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 Stichting Imec Nederland 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

Stichting Imec Nederland

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 125 granted patents across 55 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stichting ranks #3,050 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 125 patents across 55 technology areas.

#3,050
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3050 · Foreign Corporation #3,050 · 125 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 125 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,050/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Antop…
CPC-WIDE A61B · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Antop 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 Stichting’s 56.8 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 16.7 pts (29%) Velocity 5.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
EMD Millipore · near

57
Giga-byte Technology · near

57
May Mobility · near

57
Paragraf · near

57
Stichting Imec… · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stichting's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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 Stichting?

Each dot is one of Stichting’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). Stichting’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Stichting's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Stichting Imec Nederland received 62 grants versus 55 in 2015–2019 (+13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 8. Lead class A61B accounts for 24.8% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shenzhen Antop Technology Co., Ltd. (#3,046) and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (#3,054).

Stichting's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stichting Imec Nederland moved from 41 to 34 grants (0.83x 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 #1,723. See the growth leaderboard.

Shenzhen Antop Te…

125
Singapore Health…

125
SKC

125
Simplisafe

125
UCL Business

125
Université Laval

125
V-nova Internatio…

125
Wm Wrigley Jr

125
Stichting Imec Ne… ◀

125

What this shows Stichting holds 125 patents at rank #3,050, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stichting

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,050 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stichting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Stichting ranks #603 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Giga-byte Technology Co., Ltd. 57 EMD Millipore Corporation 57 May Mobility, Inc. 57 Paragraf Limited 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Stratasys Ltd. 16.0 avg DSM IP Assets B.V. 16.0 avg Thomson Licensing 16.0 avg Tendyron Corporation 16.0 avg

Stichting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Stichting Imec Nederland patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	9.6%
2016	11	8.8%
2017	11	8.8%
2018	8	6.4%
2019	13	10.4%
2020	17	13.6%
2021	11	8.8%
2022	8	6.4%
2023	13	10.4%
2024	13	10.4%
2025partial year	8	6.4%

Which technologies does Stichting Imec Nederland patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 31

H04B - Transmission 18

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 18

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 17

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 13

H03F - Amplifiers 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 7

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 6

H03C - Modulation 4

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 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

Top 15 of 55 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

Stichting Imec Nederland's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stichting Imec Nederland's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 24.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,050 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stichting Imec Nederland against Shenzhen Antop Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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

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.