Where does Thin Film Electronics ASA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thin Film Electronics ASA ranks #7,786 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 Thin Film Electronics ASA hold?

Thin Film Electronics ASA holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Thin Film Electronics ASA's Innovation Score?

Thin Film Electronics ASA has an Innovation Score of 47.9 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Thin Film Electronics ASA focus on?

Thin Film Electronics ASA's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 21 patents, ranking #585 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thin Film Electronics ASA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thin Film Electronics ASA's recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Thin Film Electronics ASA's patents?

Thin Film Electronics ASA's patents average 22.4 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.

How is the Thin Film Electronics ASA 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

Thin Film Electronics ASA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thin ranks #7,786 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 37 technology areas.

#7,786
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.9/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7786 · Foreign Corporation #7,786 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,786/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Methodist Hospital
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Methodist Hospital (±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 Thin’s 47.9 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 13.0 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 21.5 pts (45%) Claim depth 13.4 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ecovative Design · near

48
QD Vision · near

48
SST Systems · near

48
Thin Film ASA · this assignee

48
Uniwersytet… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thin's Innovation Score is 47.9/100 (top 18% 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 Thin?

Each dot is one of Thin’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). Thin’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Thin's grants concentrate

Thin Film Electronics ASA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Thin sits between Trinity Rail Group, LLC and University of Strathclyde.

Trinity Rail Group

42
Tudor Watch U

42
The Methodist Hos…

42
The Ritsumeikan T…

42
Throughputer

42
Universitat DE Ba…

42
USAI

42
University of Str…

42
Thin Film ASA ◀

42

What this shows Thin holds 42 patents at rank #7,788, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thin

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,788 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Thin ranks #585 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

QD Vision, Inc. 48 Uniwersytet Jagiellonski 48 SST Systems, Inc 48 Ecovative Design LLC 48

Thin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thin Film Electronics ASA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	23.8%
2016	7	16.7%
2017	7	16.7%
2018	7	16.7%
2019	7	16.7%
2020	3	7.1%
2021	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Thin Film Electronics ASA patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 21

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 19

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 14

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

H04B - Transmission 10

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 7

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 6

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 6

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

G11C - Static Stores 4

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

Top 15 of 37 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

Thin Film Electronics ASA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thin Film Electronics ASA's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #7,786 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thin Film Electronics ASA against Trinity Rail Group, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.9/100 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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