Where does STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. ranks #3,435 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. hold?

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. holds 108 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.2 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. focus on?

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s top technology area is H03F (Amplifiers) with 34 patents, ranking #43 of 791 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -72% 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s patents?

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s patents average 21.7 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 108 granted patents across 33 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: H03F (Amplifiers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stmicroelectronics ranks #3,435 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 108 patents across 33 technology areas.

#3,435
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3435 · Foreign Corporation #3,435 · 108 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 108 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,435/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Formlabs
CPC-FOCUS H03F · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Formlabs 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 53.2 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 16.2 pts (30%) Velocity 3.7 pts (7%) Breadth 20.3 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Centre Hospitalier… · near

53
Chroma ATE · near

53
Hendrickson USA L L C · near

53
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

53
The Sherwin-Williams · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stmicroelectronics's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (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 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 31.5% of grants classified under H03F (Amplifiers). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (27 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Stmicroelectronics sits between Formlabs Inc. and U.S. Well Services, LLC.

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x 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 #2,569. See the growth leaderboard.

Formlabs

108
GE OIL & GAS UK

108
Makerbot Industri…

108
Sram Deutschland

108
Toppan

108
The Heil

108
Toshiba Solutions

108
U S Well Services

108
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

108

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 108 patents at rank #3,435, 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 #3,435 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H03F (Amplifiers)

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 H03F (Amplifiers), STMicroelectronics ranks #43 of 791 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Centre Hospitalier ET Universitaire DE Brest 53 Chroma ATE Inc. 53 Hendrickson USA, L.L.C. 53 The Sherwin-Williams Company 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.7 here).

Prc-desoto International, Inc. 21.7 avg RPX Clearinghouse LLC 21.7 avg DMF, Inc. 21.7 avg Thermo Fisher Scientific (BREMEN) GMBH 21.7 avg

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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	14.8%
2016	27	25.0%
2017	18	16.7%
2018	13	12.0%
2019	8	7.4%
2020	4	3.7%
2021	8	7.4%
2022	3	2.8%
2023	6	5.6%
2024	2	1.9%
2025partial year	3	2.8%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. patent most?

H03F - Amplifiers 34

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 22

H03K - Pulse Technique 22

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 18

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 17

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 14

H03G - Control OF Amplification 14

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 14

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 11

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

Top 15 of 33 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 (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd.'s lead technology class is H03F (Amplifiers), 31.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H03F
Ranked #3,435 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd. against Formlabs Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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

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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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