Where does Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. ranks #24,969 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. hold?

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 29.3 out of 100 (top 70% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.0 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 Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX 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

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. focus on?

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Panasonic ranks #24,969 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 20 technology areas.

#24,969
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 70%
by Innovation Score (29.3/100): 6.0
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24969 · Foreign Corporation #24,969 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,969/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Own Data
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Own Data Company Ltd (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Panasonic Industrial… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Panasonic's Innovation Score is 29.3/100 (top 70% 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.

Where Panasonic's grants concentrate

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 27.3% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Panasonic sits between Own Data Company Ltd and Pbbpolisur S.r.l..

Panasonic's three-year grant acceleration

Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Own Data

11
Oxford Plastic Sy…

11
Oxicool

11
Panacea Products

11
Panjit Internatio…

11
Paragon

11
PARK Systems

11
Pbbpolisur S R L

11
Panasonic Industr… ◀

11

What this shows Panasonic holds 11 patents at rank #24,952, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Panasonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,952 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Panasonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 70% higher than 30% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	2	18.2%
2017	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS 3

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 3

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS 2

H01H - ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES 2

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 2

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 2

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 1

B41F - PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES 1

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 1

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 1

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

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 1

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1

G01P - MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,969

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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