Where does Vishay Electronic GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vishay Electronic GMBH ranks #38,239 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 Vishay Electronic GMBH hold?

Vishay Electronic GMBH holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Vishay Electronic GMBH's Innovation Score?

Vishay Electronic GMBH has an Innovation Score of 36.2 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Vishay Electronic GMBH focus on?

Vishay Electronic GMBH's top technology area is H01C (Resistors) with 4 patents, ranking #33 of 167 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Vishay Electronic GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vishay Electronic GMBH's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Vishay Electronic GMBH's patents?

Vishay Electronic GMBH's patents average 19.6 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 Vishay Electronic GMBH 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

Vishay Electronic GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 9 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: H01C (Resistors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vishay ranks #38,239 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 9 technology areas.

#38,239
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38239 · Foreign Corporation #38,239 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,239/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Virus Ikagaku…
CPC-NARROW H01C · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Virus Ikagaku Kenkyusho 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 Vishay’s 36.2 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 7.2 pts (20%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 10.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vishay · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vishay's Innovation Score is 36.2/100 (top 47% 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 Vishay?

Each dot is one of Vishay’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). Vishay’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vishay's grants concentrate

Vishay Electronic GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under H01C (Resistors). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Vishay sits between Virus Ikagaku Kenkyusho Inc. and Vivabiocell S.P.A..

Vishay's three-year grant acceleration

Vishay Electronic GMBH shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Virus Ikagaku Ken…

7
Viscon Group Hold…

7
Viscot Medical

7
Visedo OY

7
Vista Innotech

7
Vista Research Gr…

7
Vitrolabs

7
Vivabiocell S P A

7
Vishay ◀

7

What this shows Vishay holds 7 patents at rank #38,161, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vishay

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,161 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01C (Resistors)

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

Vishay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% 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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Vishay Electronic GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	28.6%
2016	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Vishay Electronic GMBH patent most?

H01C - Resistors 4

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 1

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

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Vishay Electronic GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vishay Electronic GMBH's lead technology class is H01C (Resistors), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01C
Ranked #38,239 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vishay Electronic GMBH against Virus Ikagaku Kenkyusho Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.2/100 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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