Where does Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. ranks #1,799 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 Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. hold?

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. holds 227 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. focus on?

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 204 patents, ranking #114 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +198% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.8 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 Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. 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

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 227 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ningbo ranks #1,799 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 227 patents across 29 technology areas.

#1,799
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +198%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1799 · Foreign Corporation #1,799 · 227 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 227 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,799/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH General Motors
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +198% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Motors LLC (±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 Ningbo’s 56.9 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 18.8 pts (33%) Velocity 9.0 pts (16%) Breadth 19.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biomerieux · near

57
Diodes Incorporated · near

57
Ningbo Sunny Opotech · this assignee

57
Toshiba Mitsubishi-e… · near

57
Velico Medical · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ningbo's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Ningbo?

Each dot is one of Ningbo’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). Ningbo’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ningbo's grants concentrate

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 89.9% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (36 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2017. By volume, Ningbo sits between Grammer AG and Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap.

Ningbo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. moved from 76 to 103 grants (1.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #571. See the growth leaderboard.

Grammer

227
General Motors

227
Lattice Semicondu…

227
Modernatx

227
Nasdaq

227
Sharp Display Tec…

227
Western Digital (…

227
Ningbo Sunny Opot… ◀

227
Atlas Copco Airpo…

226

What this shows Ningbo holds 227 patents at rank #1,798, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ningbo

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,798 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ningbo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Ningbo ranks #114 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Toshiba Mitsubishi-electric Industrial Systems Corporation 57 Diodes Incorporated 57 Velico Medical Inc. 57 Biomerieux, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Synaptive Medical Inc. 16.8 avg Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. 16.8 avg University OF Copenhagen 16.8 avg Clarius Mobile Health Corp. 16.8 avg

Ningbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	2.6%
2018	18	7.9%
2019	27	11.9%
2020	24	10.6%
2021	25	11.0%
2022	32	14.1%
2023	36	15.9%
2024	35	15.4%
2025partial year	24	10.6%

Which technologies does Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 204

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 119

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 107

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 65

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 55

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 55

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 43

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 37

H04M - Telephonic Communication 22

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 15

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

Top 15 of 29 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

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 89.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,799 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. against Grammer AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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