Where does STMicroelectronics France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics France ranks #9,888 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 France hold?

STMicroelectronics France holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics France's Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics France has an Innovation Score of 62.3 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 France focus on?

STMicroelectronics France's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 11 patents, ranking #3,353 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is STMicroelectronics France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for STMicroelectronics France.

What does claim depth mean for STMicroelectronics France's patents?

STMicroelectronics France's patents average 20.3 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 France 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 France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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 #9,888 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 26 technology areas.

#9,888
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9888 · Foreign Corporation #9,888 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,888/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sande B V
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 26 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sande. B.V. (±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 62.3 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 (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 18.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jilin University · near

62
Trustees of Tufts… · near

62
BAE Systems · near

62
Mazda Motor · near

62
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 62.3/100 (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 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 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 France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 34.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). By volume, Stmicroelectronics sits between Source Photonics (CHENGDU) Company, Ltd. and SeeQC, Inc..

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

STMicroelectronics France shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Source Photonics…

32
Spectrum Spine IP…

32
Speed Tech

32
Star Scientific A…

32
Sunland Informati…

32
Sande B V

32
Saurer Spinning S…

32
Seeqc

32
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

32

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 32 patents at rank #9,876, 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 #9,876 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 #3,353 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

BAE Systems PLC 62 Mazda Motor Corporation 62 Jilin University 62 Trustees of Tufts College 62

Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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 · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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STMicroelectronics France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	15	46.9%
2025partial year	17	53.1%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics France patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

H04B - Transmission 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 2

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 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G11C - Static Stores 2

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 2

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 2

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 2

Top 15 of 26 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 France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics France's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 34.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #9,888 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics France against Source Photonics (CHENGDU) Company, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.3/100 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.