Where does STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd ranks #10,191 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 (Malta) Ltd hold?

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% 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 (Malta) Ltd focus on?

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 23 patents, ranking #537 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 (Malta) Ltd's patents?

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's patents average 17.4 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 (Malta) Ltd 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 (Malta) Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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 #10,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 18 technology areas.

#10,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10191 · Foreign Corporation #10,191 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sandvik Materials…
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH (±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 42.1 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 12.0 pts (28%) Velocity 4.7 pts (11%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Compagnie Gervais… · near

42
GeeLux Holdings · near

42
Peugeot CITROËN… · near

42
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

42
Zuru (SINGAPORE) PTE · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 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 (Malta) Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 74.2% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Stmicroelectronics sits between Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. and Saronikos Trading and Services, Unipessoal LDA.

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Sinclair Broadcas…

31
Sionyx

31
SST Systems

31
ST Jude Medical AB

31
Sunnybrook Health…

31
Sandvik Materials…

31
Sangmyung Univers…

31
Saronikos Trading…

31
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

31

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 31 patents at rank #10,176, 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 #10,176 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 #537 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Zuru (SINGAPORE) PTE. Ltd. 42 Peugeot CITROËN Automobiles SA 42 GeeLux Holdings, Ltd. 42 Compagnie Gervais Danone 42

Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	8	25.8%
2017	4	12.9%
2018	1	3.2%
2019	5	16.1%
2020	2	6.5%
2021	3	9.7%
2022	4	12.9%
2023	1	3.2%
2024	2	6.5%
2025partial year	1	3.2%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 23

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 14

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 13

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 15 of 18 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 (Malta) Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #10,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics (Malta) Ltd against Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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.

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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