Where does Trina Solar Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trina Solar Co., Ltd. ranks #13,750 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 Trina Solar Co., Ltd. hold?

Trina Solar Co., Ltd. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Trina Solar Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.8 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 Trina Solar 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

Trina Solar Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Trina Solar Co., Ltd. focus on?

Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation) with 18 patents, ranking #139 of 1,370 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trina ranks #13,750 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 15 technology areas.

#13,750
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13750 · Foreign Corporation #13,750 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,750/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tech4Imaging
CPC-FOCUS H10F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tech4Imaging 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 Trina’s 54.0 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 10.8 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 13.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Trina Solar · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trina's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 Trina?

Each dot is one of Trina’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). Trina’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trina's grants concentrate

Trina Solar Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Trina sits between Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation and Tech4Imaging LLC.

Trina's three-year grant acceleration

Trina Solar Co., Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Toshiba Visual So…

22
Tosoh Finechem

22
Toughbuilt Indust…

22
Trete

22
Truemotion

22
Truphone

22
Tymphany Acoustic…

22
Tech4imaging

22
Trina Solar ◀

22

What this shows Trina holds 22 patents at rank #13,734, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trina

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,734 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Rad…)

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

Trina's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Trina Solar Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	4.5%
2019	1	4.5%
2024	4	18.2%
2025partial year	16	72.7%

Which technologies does Trina Solar Co., Ltd. patent most?

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 18

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

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

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

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 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

Top 15 of 15 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

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

Trina Solar Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10F
Ranked #13,750 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trina Solar Co., Ltd. against Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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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