Company Analysis

Synaptics Incorporated (SYNA)

Nasdaq: SYNA · Semiconductors & Related Devices · San Jose, CA · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade4.5
◀ Past 5.2● Present 3.7▶ Future 4.7

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

1,646 patents granted to the 8 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Synaptics Incorporated’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
1,646
1,644 utility, 1 design, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
56
Against 72 in 2024 and 89 in 2023
Applications published
1,488
62 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
8
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology243
Audio-visual technology153
Basic communication processes19
Digital communication17
Semiconductors11
Telecommunications8
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy7
Other consumer goods5
Measurement4
Optics3
Control2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name8 counted
Synaptics Incorporated its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 5 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CH)
1,361 granted
416 published
Synaptics Incorporated its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CH)
0 granted
834 published
DSP Group Ltd. a subsidiary
IL, as the owner printed on each patent. 55 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in CY)
118 granted
72 published
Synaptics Japan GK a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
103 granted
2 published
DisplayLink (UK) Limited a subsidiary
GB, as the owner printed on each patent
64 granted
21 published
DSP Group Ltd. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in IL. 9 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US)
0 granted
49 published
Synaptics Japan GK a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP
0 granted
48 published
DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in GB
0 granted
46 published
Names not counted (1)
SYNAPTICS Inc
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 3 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 23, 202512,505,849Multi-pass neural network for speech enhancementComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 23, 202512,505,344Neural network training based on consistency lossComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 16, 202512,499,903Neural network training for speech enhancementComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 9, 202512,493,380Sensing system and method to detect moisture on a sensing region of an input deviceComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 2, 202512,488,720Device and method for image processing in a display driverOpticsSynaptics Incorporated
Nov 18, 202512,474,803Correcting touch interference for active penComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Nov 4, 202512,462,722Devices and methods for controlling pixel data processingAudio-visual technologySynaptics Incorporated
Oct 28, 202512,456,482Neural temporal beamformer for noise reduction in single-channel audio signalsComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Oct 28, 202512,456,477Audio source separation for multi-channel beamforming based on face detectionComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Oct 28, 202512,455,586Current source circuits tolerant of transistor characteristics variationsAudio-visual technologySynaptics Incorporated
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 11, 20252025/0378036MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTUREComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 11, 20252025/0377847MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICESAudio-visual technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 4, 20252025/0372049LOCAL DIMMING FOR DISPLAY DEVICES WITH IMAGE WARPING FUNCTIONAudio-visual technologySynaptics Incorporated
Dec 4, 20252025/0371653DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE WARPINGComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Nov 6, 20252025/0342687SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOUCH CLASSIFICATION IN A TOUCH SENSORComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Nov 6, 20252025/0341920MULTI-FREQUENCY CODE-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING (CDM) TOUCH SENSINGComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Nov 6, 20252025/0341916MULTI-FREQUENCY ZERO-ROW-SUM CODE-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING (CDM) TOUCH SENSINGComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Nov 6, 20252025/0341915SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIAL PARALLEL TOUCH SENSINGComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Oct 16, 20252025/0322545CONTENT-SPECIFIC FIDELITY METRICS FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION MODELSComputer technologySynaptics Incorporated
Oct 9, 20252025/0316244SOURCE AMPLIFIER CONTROL FOR POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION IN DISPLAY DRIVERSAudio-visual technologySynaptics Incorporated
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 75 · Audio-visual technology 33 · Digital communication 7 · Basic communication processes 5 · Other consumer goods 3 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 2.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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