Where does STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS ranks #2,257 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 (Tours) SAS hold?

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS holds 174 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's Innovation Score?

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS 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%).

Is STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 (Tours) SAS's patents?

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's patents average 18.7 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 (Tours) SAS 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 (Tours) SAS

Q: What technology areas does STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS focus on?

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's top technology area is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices) with 61 patents. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 174 granted patents across 46 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: H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stmicroelectronics ranks #2,257 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 174 patents across 46 technology areas.

#2,257
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2257 · Foreign Corporation #2,257 · 174 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 174 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,257/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Joseph Joseph
CPC-WIDE H10D · 46 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Joseph Joseph Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fortinet · near

62
III Holdings 12 · near

62
Rondo Energy · near

62
STMicroelectronics… · this assignee

62
University of… · near

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.

Where Stmicroelectronics's grants concentrate

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 35.1% of grants classified under H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (24 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2021. By volume, Stmicroelectronics sits between Joseph Joseph Ltd. and Bard Access Systems, Inc..

Stmicroelectronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS moved from 39 to 54 grants (1.39x 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 #537. See the growth leaderboard.

Joseph Joseph

174
NAN YA Plastics

174
Outotec (Finland)…

174
SIG Sauer

174
Sumitomo Construc…

174
Valeo Equipements…

174
Yahoo Japan

174
Stmicroelectronic… ◀

174
Bard Access Syste…

173

What this shows STMicroelectronics holds 174 patents at rank #2,257, 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 #2,257 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

III Holdings 12, LLC 62 University of British Columbia 62 Fortinet, Inc. 62 Rondo Energy, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation 18.7 avg AI Incorporated 18.7 avg Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. 18.7 avg FEI Company 18.7 avg

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 · 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 (Tours) SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	9.8%
2016	17	9.8%
2017	18	10.3%
2018	18	10.3%
2019	16	9.2%
2020	13	7.5%
2021	10	5.7%
2022	24	13.8%
2023	16	9.2%
2024	14	8.0%
2025partial year	11	6.3%

Which technologies does STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 61

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 47

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 38

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 29

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 22

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 18

H03K - Pulse Technique 14

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 14

H04B - Transmission 13

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 12

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 11

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 10

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

Top 15 of 46 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,257

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS's lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 35.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #2,257 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS against Joseph Joseph 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

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