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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited ranks #3,991 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 Nanjing Company, Limited hold?

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

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

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited has an Innovation Score of 63.0 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 Nanjing Company, Limited focus on?

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 36 patents, ranking #1,274 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

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

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

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

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited's patents average 19.9 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 Nanjing 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 Nanjing Company, Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 granted patents across 19 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tsmc ranks #3,991 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 19 technology areas.

#3,991
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.0/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3991 · Foreign Corporation #3,991 · 91 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,991/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sage Therapeutics
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 19 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (±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 63.0 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 15.6 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 15.4 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exxonmobil Upstream… · near

63
Hoya · near

63
Tsmc Nanjing · this assignee

63
Hill Phoenix · near

63
The Mitre · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tsmc's Innovation Score is 63.0/100 (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 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 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 Nanjing Company, Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 39.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (22 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, Tsmc sits between Sage Therapeutics, Inc. and University of Manitoba.

Tsmc's three-year grant acceleration

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited shows 62 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Sage Therapeutics

91
Saint Louis Unive…

91
Silgan White Cap

91
Tango Networks

91
Transdermal Biote…

91
Transitions Optic…

91
Treace Medical Co…

91
University of Man…

91
Tsmc Nanjing ◀

91

What this shows Tsmc holds 91 patents at rank #3,988, 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 #3,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Tsmc ranks #1,274 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Hoya Corporation 63 Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company 63 Hill Phoenix, Inc. 63 The Mitre Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Tahoe Research, Ltd. 19.9 avg DigiLens Inc. 19.9 avg Auckland Uniservices Limited 19.9 avg Celanese International Corporation 19.9 avg

Tsmc's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 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 Nanjing Company, Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	3	3.3%
2022	20	22.0%
2023	22	24.2%
2024	20	22.0%
2025partial year	26	28.6%

Which technologies does Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 27

G11C - Static Stores 26

H03K - Pulse Technique 24

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 24

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 8

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

B01D - Separation 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

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

Top 15 of 19 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 Nanjing Company, Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 39.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,991 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited against Sage Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.0/100 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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