Where does TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. ranks #608 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 TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. hold?

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. holds 728 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 77.0 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 TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents?

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. focus on?

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 309 patents. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 728 granted patents across 81 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: 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; Optica).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, TCL ranks #608 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 728 patents across 81 technology areas.

#608
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (77.0/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R608 · Foreign Corporation #608 · 728 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 728 grants
TOP-DECILE #608/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SMC
CPC-WIDE G02F · 81 areas
INNOV-STRONG 77.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SMC Corporation (±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
Globalfoundries U S · near

77
Honor Device · near

77
TCL China Star… · this assignee

77
Huawei · near

77
Rivian IP Holdings · near

77
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TCL's Innovation Score is 77.0/100 (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.

How TCL's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 260 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 10. Lead class G02F accounts for 42.4% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toyota Research Institute, Inc. (#604) and Sanofi (#612).

TCL's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. moved from 67 to 497 grants (7.42x 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 #16. See the growth leaderboard.

Toyota Research I…

735
Logitech Europe

731
Michelin Recherch…

729
SMC

728
TCL China Star Op… ◀

728
ST Jude Medical C…

727
Exxonmobil Resear…

724
Seoul Viosys

723
Sanofi

721

What this shows TCL holds 728 patents at rank #608, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TCL

By rank, the assignees closest to #608 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for TCL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (77 here).

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 77 Rivian IP Holdings, LLC 77 Honor Device Co., Ltd. 77 Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. 77

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V. 15.4 avg NeuroPace, Inc. 15.4 avg MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd. 15.4 avg Liebherr-werk Ehingen GMBH 15.4 avg

TCL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

77 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	10	1.4%
2021	57	7.8%
2022	108	14.8%
2023	129	17.7%
2024	260	35.7%
2025partial year	164	22.5%

Which technologies does TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 309

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 295

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 88

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 70

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 59

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 55

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 44

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 33

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 27

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 20

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

Top 15 of 81 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#608

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

77.0 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

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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; Optica), 42.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02F
Ranked #608 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. against Toyota Research Institute, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 77.0/100 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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