The dataset ranks 100 assignees by record count, with the leader holding 45 of the 457 records in scope and the fifth-ranked assignee holding 14. The top five combined account for 23.4% of all records, which is a meaningful concentration but leaves most of the field to a long tail of smaller filers. Anyone benchmarking a competitive position should look at both the leader's volume and the shape of that tail, since a crowded top five does not mean the whole field is locked up.

Filings rose through the late 2010s and peaked at 38 records in 2023, then the last fully comparable window shows a drop from 31 records in 2021 to 19 in 2024 — a 39% decline. Because patent publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures in any dataset like this are still incomplete and will revise upward. Treat the post-2023 numbers as provisional rather than proof of a sustained slowdown.

Almost all records, 91.7% of the 457 in scope, carry an H02M power-conversion classification, since gate driver claims are typically drafted as part of a converter topology rather than as isolated circuit claims. H03K pulse-technique and logic-circuit classifications appear on 23.6% of records, covering switching-timing and dead-band claims, while H02J grid-supply classifications and B60L electric-vehicle classifications each cover smaller but non-trivial shares. Because a single record can carry several classes, these shares add up to more than 100% of the record base.

The United States leads receiving-office activity with 217 filings in this dataset, followed by the European Patent Office at 64, India at 54, Japan at 25, South Korea at 24 and the WIPO PCT route at 23. That spread indicates filers are seeking protection across multiple major markets rather than concentrating on a single jurisdiction, which is consistent with gate drivers being a component technology embedded in products sold globally.

US20260246377A1, published 2026-08-20 by Skycore ApS, claims a programmable gate driver array for a switched-capacitor DC-DC converter with individually clock-controlled gate drivers, which points toward finer per-switch timing control as an active area of claim drafting. It is one of the most recent records in the dataset and sits inside the same H02M-anchored classification pattern seen across the wider field. Because it is so recent, its eventual citation influence cannot yet be assessed against older, heavily-cited records in this set.