Where does Texas Instruments Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Texas Instruments Incorporated ranks #33 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 Texas Instruments Incorporated hold?

Texas Instruments Incorporated holds 9,915 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 202 technology areas.

What is Texas Instruments Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Texas Instruments Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 73.1 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%).

What technology areas does Texas Instruments Incorporated focus on?

Texas Instruments Incorporated's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,882 patents, ranking #39 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 202 CPC subclasses total.

Is Texas Instruments Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Texas Instruments Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +16% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Texas Instruments Incorporated's patents?

Texas Instruments Incorporated's patents average 16.7 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 Texas Instruments Incorporated 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 US Corporation

Texas Instruments Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9,915 granted patents across 202 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Texas ranks #33 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9,915 patents across 202 technology areas.

#33
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.1/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33 · US Corporation #33 · 9,915 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 9.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #33/49,997
CLEAR-GAP SK hynix
CPC-BROAD G06F · 202 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SK hynix Inc. (±85 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 Texas’s 73.1 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 31.8 pts (44%) Velocity 6.3 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Texas Instruments… · this assignee

73
Beijing Xiaomi… · near

73
Toyota Research… · near

73
Imam Abdulrahman… · near

73
Solventum Intellectu… · near

73
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Texas's Innovation Score is 73.1/100 (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 Texas?

Each dot is one of Texas’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). Texas’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Texas's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Texas Instruments Incorporated received 4,983 grants versus 4,305 in 2015–2019 (+16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 1,149 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 787. Lead class G06F accounts for 19% of the portfolio across 202 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nike, Inc. (#29) and Koniniklijke Philips N.V. (#37).

Texas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Texas Instruments Incorporated moved from 3,020 to 2,859 grants (0.95x 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 #1,330. See the growth leaderboard.

Nike

10,487
Cisco Technology

10,299
Ricoh

10,223
Dell Products

10,222
Texas Instruments… ◀

9,915
SK hynix

9,830
NEC

9,672
Fujitsu

9,654
Koniniklijke Phil…

9,647

What this shows Texas holds 9,915 patents at rank #33, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Texas

By rank, the assignees closest to #33 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Texas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Texas ranks #39 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (73 here).

Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. 73 Toyota Research Institute, Inc. 73 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 73 Solventum Intellectual Properties Company 73

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. 16.7 avg Biomet Manufacturing, LLC 16.7 avg The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma 16.7 avg CreateMe Technologies Inc. 16.7 avg

Texas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

73 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.

View data table

Texas Instruments Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	808	8.1%
2016	888	9.0%
2017	926	9.3%
2018	787	7.9%
2019	896	9.0%
2020	1,149	11.6%
2021	975	9.8%
2022	912	9.2%
2023	979	9.9%
2024	968	9.8%
2025partial year	627	6.3%

Which technologies does Texas Instruments Incorporated patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,882

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1,812

H03K - Pulse Technique 1,140

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1,129

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1,109

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,032

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 945

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 758

H04B - Transmission 702

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 579

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 520

H03F - Amplifiers 442

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 421

G11C - Static Stores 366

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 357

Top 15 of 202 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

Texas Instruments Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Texas Instruments Incorporated's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 19% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #33 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Texas Instruments Incorporated against Nike, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.1/100 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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