STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
Marlow, GB· latest recorded location
STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited is named on 436 US grants and 465 published applications in this corpus. Its most frequent classification is H04N (Pictorial communication).
- Granted patents
- 436
- Published applications
- 465
- Inventors
- 266
- Granted in 2026 so far
- 7
- Most recent grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 0 | 8 |
| 2007 | 0 | 22 |
| 2008 | 2 | 29 |
| 2009 | 7 | 16 |
| 2010 | 16 | 17 |
| 2011 | 15 | 40 |
| 2012 | 19 | 34 |
| 2013 | 28 | 14 |
| 2014 | 33 | 22 |
| 2015 | 40 | 13 |
| 2016 | 29 | 22 |
| 2017 | 25 | 27 |
| 2018 | 27 | 39 |
| 2019 | 34 | 25 |
| 2020 | 22 | 27 |
| 2021 | 28 | 34 |
| 2022 | 23 | 25 |
| 2023 | 34 | 23 |
| 2024 | 27 | 22 |
| 2025 | 20 | 4 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Technology areas
Share of 901 documents
- H04NPictorial communication291
- G01SRadio direction-finding273
- H10FSolar cells and light sensors240
- G06FComputing and data processing163
- G01JMeasurement of intensity, velocity, spectral content, polarisation, phase or pulse characteristics of104
- G02BOptical elements, systems or apparatus91
- H10WGeneric packages, interconnections, connectors or other constructional details of devices covered by58
- H01SDevices using the process of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation52
- G06TImage data processing or generation, in general44
- H03KPulse technique42
Recent patents
- Sparse under display LIDAR22 Sep 2026US 12,742,882 B2
- Time of flight sensing unit having reconfigurable or logic4 Aug 2026US 12,700,865 B2
- Optoelectronic device16 Jun 2026US 12,656,465 B2
- Differential correlator filter for efficient ToF peak finding28 Apr 2026US 12,613,343 B2
- Optical element displacement detection circuit28 Apr 2026US 12,614,891 B2
- Embedded transmissive diffractive optical elements23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110913 A1
- Sensor with cross talk suppression5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036687 A1
- Method and apparatus for processing a histogram output from a detector sensor2 Oct 2025US 2025/0307351 A1
- Methods and devices for identifying peaks in histograms21 Aug 2025US 2025/0264586 A1
- Light sensor19 Jun 2025US 2025/0198838 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Single photon avalanche diode for CMOS circuits111US 9,178,100 B22015
- Application using a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD)87US 9,058,081 B22015
- Proximity detection apparatus and associated methods having single photon avalanche diodes for determining a quality metric based upon the number of events77US 9,316,735 B22016
- Time to digital converter and applications thereof70US 9,639,063 B22017
- Processing packet streams53US 9,026,790 B22015