Where does Stmicroelectronics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stmicroelectronics, Inc. ranks #505 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, Inc. hold?

Stmicroelectronics, Inc. holds 888 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 125 technology areas.

What is Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Stmicroelectronics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.9 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, Inc. focus on?

Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 385 patents, ranking #62 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 125 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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, Inc.'s patents?

Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s patents average 20.1 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, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 888 granted patents across 125 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 #505 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 888 patents across 125 technology areas.

#505
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.9/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R505 · US Corporation #505 · 888 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 888 grants
TOP-DECILE #505/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Zhejiang University
CPC-WIDE H01L · 125 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zhejiang University (±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 63.9 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 23.5 pts (37%) Velocity 3.4 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
King Abdullah… · near

64
Lumus · near

64
Stmicroelectronics · this assignee

64
UiPath · near

64
Yale University · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 63.9/100 (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 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 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, Inc. received 265 grants versus 604 in 2015–2019 (-56% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 133 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 35. Lead class H01L accounts for 43.4% of the portfolio across 125 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Illumina, Inc. (#501) and Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (#509).

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stmicroelectronics, Inc. moved from 240 to 124 grants (0.52x 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 #2,646. See the growth leaderboard.

Illumina

890
Nissan North Amer…

890
Shell OIL Compny

890
Epistar

889
Zhejiang Universi…

888
Stmicroelectronics ◀

888
Societe des Produ…

887
Weatherford Techn…

886
Toyota Boshoku

885

What this shows Stmicroelectronics holds 888 patents at rank #505, 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 #505 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 #62 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 64 UiPath, Inc. 64 Lumus Ltd. 64 Yale University 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

VID Scale, Inc. 20.1 avg Tactotek OY 20.1 avg Rainbow Medical Ltd. 20.1 avg Applied Micro Circuits Corporation 20.1 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.

View data table

Stmicroelectronics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	124	14.0%
2016	133	15.0%
2017	126	14.2%
2018	122	13.7%
2019	99	11.1%
2020	91	10.2%
2021	50	5.6%
2022	43	4.8%
2023	46	5.2%
2024	35	3.9%
2025partial year	19	2.1%

Which technologies does Stmicroelectronics, Inc. patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 385

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 329

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 68

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 63

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 61

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 51

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 50

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 42

H04B - Transmission 33

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 32

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 30

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 29

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 29

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 27

H03K - Pulse Technique 23

Top 15 of 125 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, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stmicroelectronics, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 43.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #505 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stmicroelectronics, Inc. against Illumina, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.9/100 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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