Where does Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. ranks #657 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 Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. holds 684 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 273 patents. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -84% 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 Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.0 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 Tianma Microelectronics 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 684 granted patents across 55 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, Tianma ranks #657 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 684 patents across 55 technology areas.

#657
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R657 · Foreign Corporation #657 · 684 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 684 grants
TOP-DECILE #657/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GM Cruise Holdings
CPC-WIDE G06F · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GM Cruise Holdings LLC (±1 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
Givaudan · near

57
The Strategic Coach · near

57
Tianma Microelectron… · this assignee

57
Xero · near

57
Mainstream Engineering · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tianma's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 Tianma's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. received 96 grants versus 584 in 2015–2019 (-84% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 189 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 2. Lead class G06F accounts for 39.9% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Evonik Degussa GMBH (#653) and Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. (#661).

Tianma's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. moved from 218 to 21 grants (0.10x 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 #3,181. See the growth leaderboard.

Evonik Degussa

686
GM Cruise Holdings

685
The Brigham and W…

685
Yale University

685
Tianma Microelect… ◀

684
Bayer Healthcare

681
M S L L C

681
Topcon

680
Shinko Electric I…

678

What this shows Tianma holds 684 patents at rank #657, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tianma

By rank, the assignees closest to #657 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Xero Limited 57 The Strategic Coach Inc. 57 Givaudan SA 57 Mainstream Engineering Corporation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Alcon Inc. 15.0 avg Aesculap AG 15.0 avg Headway Technologies, Inc. 15.0 avg Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG 15.0 avg

Tianma's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	2.6%
2016	66	9.6%
2017	168	24.6%
2018	189	27.6%
2019	143	20.9%
2020	59	8.6%
2021	16	2.3%
2022	13	1.9%
2023	6	0.9%
2024	2	0.3%
2025partial year	4	0.6%

Which technologies does Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 273

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 257

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 194

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 141

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 111

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 54

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 30

G11C - Static Stores 22

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 16

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 11

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

Top 15 of 55 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#657

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.2 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

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 39.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #657 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. against Evonik Degussa GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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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