Where does STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited ranks #1,373 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited has an Innovation Score of 64.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 (Research & Development) Limited's patents?

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's patents average 22.2 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 (Research & Development) Limited

Q: How many patents does STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited hold?

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited holds 306 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 73 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited focus on?

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's top technology area is 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) with 113 patents, ranking #51 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 73 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 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 - 306 granted patents across 73 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stmicroelectronics ranks #1,373 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 306 patents across 73 technology areas.

#1,373
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1373 · Foreign Corporation #1,373 · 306 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 306 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,373/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cedars Sinai…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 73 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cedars Sinai Medical Center (±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 64.9 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 19.8 pts (31%) Velocity 6.8 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAC Microtech… · near

65
Dolby Laboratories… · near

65
Mako Surgical · near

65
Regents of the… · near

65
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (top 1% 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 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 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 (Research & Development) Limited received 136 grants versus 156 in 2015–2019 (-13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 22. Lead class G01S accounts for 36.9% of the portfolio across 73 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cedars Sinai Medical Center (#1,369) and Yahoo Assets LLC (#1,377).

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited moved from 84 to 86 grants (1.02x 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 #1,119. See the growth leaderboard.

Cedars Sinai Medi…

306
Coulter Ventures

306
DRÄGerwerk & Kgaa

306
FMR

306
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306
Max

305
Nihon Kohden

305
University of Ken…

305
Yahoo Assets

305

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 306 patents at rank #1,373, 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 #1,373 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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 G01S (Radio Direction-finding), STMicroelectronics ranks #51 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Mako Surgical Corp. 65 AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. 65 Regents of the University of Minnesota 65 Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.2 here).

Trimble Navigation Limited 22.1 avg Cloudera, Inc. 22.1 avg Cook Biotech Incorporated 22.2 avg Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd 22.1 avg

Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 (Research & Development) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	41	13.4%
2016	29	9.5%
2017	25	8.2%
2018	27	8.8%
2019	34	11.1%
2020	22	7.2%
2021	28	9.2%
2022	24	7.8%
2023	34	11.1%
2024	28	9.2%
2025partial year	14	4.6%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited patent most?

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 113

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 98

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 92

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 53

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 44

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 29

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 23

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 18

H03K - Pulse Technique 16

H04B - Transmission 12

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 11

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

Top 15 of 73 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 (Research & Development) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 36.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,373 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited against Cedars Sinai Medical Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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.

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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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