Where does STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. ranks #6,845 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 Design & Application S.R.O. hold?

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% 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 Design & Application S.R.O. focus on?

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 16 patents, ranking #2,520 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s recent grant velocity is +53% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s patents?

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s patents average 20.4 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

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.

Q: How is the STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. 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 - 49 granted patents across 29 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stmicroelectronics ranks #6,845 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 29 technology areas.

#6,845
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6845 · Foreign Corporation #6,845 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,845/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Relievant Medsystems
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Relievant Medsystems, 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.

How Stmicroelectronics’s 53.1 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 13.5 pts (25%) Velocity 8.3 pts (16%) Breadth 19.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
European Space Agency · near

53
Atlas Global · near

53
National University… · near

53
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

53
Waters Ireland · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 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.

Where Stmicroelectronics's grants concentrate

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 32.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Stmicroelectronics sits between Relievant Medsystems, Inc. and Samsung Dispiay Co., Ltd..

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Relievant Medsyst…

49
Seegene

49
SKF Magnetic Mech…

49
Standard Cognition

49
Switch

49
Safariland

49
Safran Landing Sy…

49
Samsung Dispiay

49
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

49

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 49 patents at rank #6,837, 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 #6,837 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), STMicroelectronics ranks #2,520 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Atlas Global Technologies LLC 53 National University Corporation Chiba University 53 Waters Technologies Ireland Limited 53 European Space Agency 53

Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 Design & Application S.R.O. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	8.2%
2017	6	12.2%
2018	2	4.1%
2019	7	14.3%
2020	6	12.2%
2021	3	6.1%
2022	7	14.3%
2023	7	14.3%
2024	6	12.2%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

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

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 12

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 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 6

G11C - Static Stores 6

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 4

H03F - Amplifiers 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

Top 15 of 29 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 Design & Application S.R.O.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 32.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #6,845 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. against Relievant Medsystems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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.

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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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