Where does Ultratech rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ultratech ranks #6,852 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 Ultratech hold?

Ultratech holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Ultratech's Innovation Score?

Ultratech has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ultratech focus on?

Ultratech's top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 32 patents, ranking #430 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ultratech's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ultratech's recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Ultratech's patents?

Ultratech's patents average 17.6 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 Ultratech 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

Ultratech

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Ultratech ranks #6,852 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 24 technology areas.

#6,852
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6852 · Foreign Corporation #6,852 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,852/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Terumo Cardiovascula…
CPC-FOCUS H01L · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation (±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 Ultratech’s 42.5 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 13.5 pts (32%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 17.3 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cummins Intellectual… · near

43
Deep Isolation · near

43
Ping Identity · near

43
Rodenstock · near

43
Ultratech · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ultratech's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Ultratech?

Each dot is one of Ultratech’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). Ultratech’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ultratech's grants concentrate

Ultratech is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 65.3% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ultratech sits between Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation and Walter AG.

Ultratech's three-year grant acceleration

Ultratech shows 1 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.

Terumo Cardiovasc…

49
Tyco AMP Korea

49
University Public…

49
UniversitÉ Cathol…

49
V-wave

49
Varel Internation…

49
W&H Dentalwerk Bü…

49
Walter

49
Ultratech ◀

49

What this shows Ultratech holds 49 patents at rank #6,854, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ultratech

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,854 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ultratech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Ultratech ranks #430 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Rodenstock GMBH 43 Ping Identity Corporation 43 Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc. 43 Deep Isolation, Inc. 43

Ultratech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Ultratech patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	10.2%
2016	14	28.6%
2017	16	32.7%
2018	7	14.3%
2019	6	12.2%
2023	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Ultratech patent most?

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 32

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 16

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 16

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 9

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; 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 3

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

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 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ultratech's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ultratech's lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 65.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #6,852 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ultratech against Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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