Where does Synaptics Japan GK rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Synaptics Japan GK ranks #3,580 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 Synaptics Japan GK hold?

Synaptics Japan GK holds 103 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Synaptics Japan GK's Innovation Score?

Synaptics Japan GK has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Synaptics Japan GK's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Synaptics Japan GK's recent grant velocity is -79% 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 Synaptics Japan GK's patents?

Synaptics Japan GK's patents average 17.3 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 Synaptics Japan GK 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

Synaptics Japan GK

Q: What technology areas does Synaptics Japan GK focus on?

Synaptics Japan GK's top technology area is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information) with 77 patents, ranking #78 of 1,688 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 103 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Synaptics ranks #3,580 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 103 patents across 23 technology areas.

#3,580
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3580 · Foreign Corporation #3,580 · 103 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 103 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,580/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rigetti &
CPC-FOCUS G09G · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rigetti & Co, LLC (±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 Synaptics’s 43.7 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 16.0 pts (37%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 17.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Goji · near

44
Koolbridge Solar · near

44
Ortronics · near

44
Synaptics Japan GK · this assignee

44
Vlaamse Instelling… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Synaptics's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Synaptics?

Each dot is one of Synaptics’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). Synaptics’s own 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Synaptics vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Synaptics's grants concentrate

Synaptics Japan GK is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 74.8% of grants classified under G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (31 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Synaptics sits between Rigetti & Co, LLC and 3form, LLC.

Synaptics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Synaptics Japan GK moved from 44 to 2 grants (0.04x 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 #3,232. See the growth leaderboard.

Rigetti &

103
Suzhou China Star…

103
Solenis

103
Surmodics

103
Totalenergies One…

103
UniversitÉ Paris…

103
Valmet Oy

103
Synaptics Japan GK ◀

103
3form

102

What this shows Synaptics holds 103 patents at rank #3,580, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Synaptics

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,580 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Synaptics's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Synaptics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Device…), Synaptics ranks #78 of 1,688 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Goji Limited 44 Ortronics, Inc. 44 Koolbridge Solar, Inc. 44 Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek NV (VITO) 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Oregon State University 17.3 avg Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S. 17.3 avg National Research Council of Canada 17.3 avg Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. 17.3 avg

Synaptics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Synaptics Japan GK patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	2.9%
2017	31	30.1%
2018	23	22.3%
2019	28	27.2%
2020	11	10.7%
2021	5	4.9%
2023	2	1.9%

Which technologies does Synaptics Japan GK patent most?

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 77

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

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 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 4

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 3

G11C - Static Stores 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

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 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Synaptics Japan GK's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Synaptics Japan GK's lead technology class is G09G (Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information), 74.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09G
Ranked #3,580 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Synaptics Japan GK against Rigetti & Co, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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