Where does Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. ranks #1,136 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 Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. hold?

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. holds 372 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 64.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. focus on?

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 178 patents, ranking #238 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Is Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +19% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.8 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 Samsung SDS 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

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 372 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Samsung ranks #1,136 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 372 patents across 48 technology areas.

#1,136
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1136 · Foreign Corporation #1,136 · 372 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 372 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,136/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 10x Genomics
CPC-WIDE H04L · 48 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 10x Genomics, Inc. (±1 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 Samsung’s 64.9 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 20.5 pts (32%) Velocity 10.5 pts (16%) Breadth 24.5 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mirise · near

65
Samsung SDS · this assignee

65
Minimax Viking… · near

65
Pukyong National… · near

65
The Government of… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Samsung's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (top 1% 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 Samsung?

Each dot is one of Samsung’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). Samsung’s own 15.8 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Samsung's grants concentrate

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 47.8% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (50 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2019. By volume, Samsung sits between 10x Genomics, Inc. and Ventana Medical Systems, Inc..

Samsung's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. moved from 80 to 126 grants (1.57x 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 #395. See the growth leaderboard.

10x Genomics

373
Huawei Digital Po…

373
Nokia

373
University of Bri…

373
Samsung SDS ◀

372
HL Mando

371
Puma SE

371
The Curators of t…

371
Ventana Medical S…

371

What this shows Samsung holds 372 patents at rank #1,136, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Samsung

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,136 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Samsung, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Samsung ranks #238 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Mirise Technologies Corporation 65 Pukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation 65 Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH 65 The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC 15.8 avg Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) Ltd. 15.8 avg Arcam AB 15.8 avg ChampionX USA Inc. 15.8 avg

Samsung's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	38	10.2%
2016	38	10.2%
2017	33	8.9%
2018	34	9.1%
2019	16	4.3%
2020	28	7.5%
2021	36	9.7%
2022	50	13.4%
2023	47	12.6%
2024	29	7.8%
2025partial year	23	6.2%

Which technologies does Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 178

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 176

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 43

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 37

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 35

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 32

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 6

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 5

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

Top 15 of 48 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

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Samsung SDS Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 47.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,136 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. against 10x Genomics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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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