Where does Tsmc China Company, Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tsmc China Company, Limited ranks #3,335 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 Tsmc China Company, Limited hold?

Tsmc China Company, Limited holds 112 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Tsmc China Company, Limited's Innovation Score?

Tsmc China Company, Limited has an Innovation Score of 64.1 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tsmc China Company, Limited focus on?

Tsmc China Company, Limited's top technology area is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices) with 60 patents, ranking #132 of 1,402 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tsmc China Company, Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Tsmc China Company, Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Tsmc China Company, Limited's patents?

Tsmc China Company, Limited's patents average 20.0 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 Tsmc China Company, Limited 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

Tsmc China Company, Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 112 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tsmc ranks #3,335 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 112 patents across 20 technology areas.

#3,335
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.1/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3335 · Foreign Corporation #3,335 · 112 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 112 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,335/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Niagara Bottling
CPC-FOCUS H10D · 20 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Niagara Bottling, 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 Tsmc’s 64.1 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 16.3 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 15.8 pts (25%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Great Plains… · near

64
Hisense Visual… · near

64
Tsmc China · this assignee

64
Arctic Cat · near

64
American Regent · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tsmc's Innovation Score is 64.1/100 (top 2% 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 Tsmc?

Each dot is one of Tsmc’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). Tsmc’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tsmc's grants concentrate

Tsmc China Company, Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 53.6% of grants classified under H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (30 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, Tsmc sits between Niagara Bottling, LLC and Yealink (XIAMEN) Network Technology Co., Ltd..

Tsmc's three-year grant acceleration

Tsmc China Company, Limited shows 86 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Niagara Bottling

112
Pixar

112
Queen's Universit…

112
Sandisk 3D

112
The Travelers Ind…

112
Welltec A/S

112
West Affum Holdin…

112
Yealink (Xiamen)…

112
Tsmc China ◀

112

What this shows Tsmc holds 112 patents at rank #3,334, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tsmc

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,334 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tsmc, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), Tsmc ranks #132 of 1,402 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. 64 Arctic Cat Inc. 64 American Regent, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Lantiq Beteiligungs-gmbh & Co. KG 20.0 avg Lodestar Licensing Group LLC 20.0 avg Pindrop Security, Inc. 20.0 avg Sun Chemical Corporation 20.0 avg

Tsmc's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tsmc China Company, Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	6	5.4%
2022	27	24.1%
2023	29	25.9%
2024	30	26.8%
2025partial year	20	17.9%

Which technologies does Tsmc China Company, Limited patent most?

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 60

G11C - Static Stores 39

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 35

H03K - Pulse Technique 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 8

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 4

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

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 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Tsmc China Company, Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tsmc China Company, Limited's lead technology class is H10D (Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10D
Ranked #3,335 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tsmc China Company, Limited against Niagara Bottling, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.1/100 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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