Where does STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS ranks #828 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 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS hold?

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS holds 555 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS has an Innovation Score of 63.7 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%).

What technology areas does STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS focus on?

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 210 patents, ranking #98 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

Is STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's patents?

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's patents average 19.4 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 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS 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

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 555 granted patents across 74 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, Stmicroelectronics ranks #828 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 555 patents across 74 technology areas.

#828
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R828 · Foreign Corporation #828 · 555 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 555 grants
TOP-DECILE #828/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rolls-royce…
CPC-WIDE H01L · 74 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (±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 Stmicroelectronics’s 63.7 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 21.8 pts (34%) Velocity 5.2 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huazhong University… · near

64
International Truck… · near

64
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

64
Workhorse Group · near

64
Caterpillar Paving… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Stmicroelectronics?

Each dot is one of Stmicroelectronics’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). Stmicroelectronics’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Stmicroelectronics's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS received 231 grants versus 293 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 74 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 41. Lead class H01L accounts for 37.8% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zimmer, Inc. (#824) and Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (#832).

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS moved from 171 to 134 grants (0.78x 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 #1,890. See the growth leaderboard.

Zimmer

558
Asahi Kasei

557
Parsons Xtreme Go…

556
Rolls-royce Deuts…

555
Sumitomo Heavy In…

555
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

555
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

555
Walters Gardens

554
Lapis Semiconduct…

552

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 555 patents at rank #828, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near STMicroelectronics

By rank, the assignees closest to #828 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for STMicroelectronics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), STMicroelectronics ranks #98 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Huazhong University of Science and Technology 64 International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC 64 Workhorse Group Inc. 64 Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 19.4 avg Niantic, Inc. 19.4 avg Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd. 19.4 avg Clover Network, LLC. 19.4 avg

Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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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STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	9.0%
2016	57	10.3%
2017	56	10.1%
2018	56	10.1%
2019	74	13.3%
2020	45	8.1%
2021	52	9.4%
2022	41	7.4%
2023	50	9.0%
2024	43	7.7%
2025partial year	31	5.6%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 210

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 196

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 138

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 85

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 55

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 52

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 50

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 36

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 33

G11C - Static Stores 28

H03K - Pulse Technique 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

Top 15 of 74 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

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 37.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #828 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS against Zimmer, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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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