Where does Sandia Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sandia Corporation ranks #1,324 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 Sandia Corporation hold?

Sandia Corporation holds 320 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 169 technology areas.

What is Sandia Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sandia Corporation has an Innovation Score of 54.9 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sandia Corporation focus on?

Sandia Corporation's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 47 patents, ranking #313 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 169 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sandia Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sandia Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Sandia Corporation's patents?

Sandia Corporation's patents average 16.6 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 Sandia Corporation 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 US Corporation

Sandia Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 320 granted patents across 169 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sandia ranks #1,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 320 patents across 169 technology areas.

#1,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.9/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1324 · US Corporation #1,324 · 320 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 320 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Converse
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 169 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Converse Inc. (±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 Sandia’s 54.9 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 19.9 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Faurecia Interior… · near

55
Sandia · this assignee

55
Seurat · near

55
Shaanxi University… · near

55
The University of… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sandia's Innovation Score is 54.9/100 (top 7% 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 Sandia?

Each dot is one of Sandia’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). Sandia’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sandia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sandia Corporation received 1 grants versus 319 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 124 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class Y02E accounts for 14.7% of the portfolio across 169 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nchain Licensing AG (#1,322) and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (#1,330).

Nchain Licensing

321
Converse

320
Southeast Univers…

320
Sumco

320
Sandia ◀

320
Amkor Technology

319
Itron

319
Kiekert

319
R J Reynolds Toba…

319

What this shows Sandia holds 320 patents at rank #1,326, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sandia

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,326 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sandia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Sandia ranks #313 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Faurecia Interior Systems, Inc. 55 Shaanxi University OF Science AND Technology 55 The University of Sydney 55 Seurat Technologies, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Abbott Point of Care Inc. 16.6 avg Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC 16.6 avg Landa Corporation Ltd. 16.6 avg Ridge Tool Company 16.6 avg

Sandia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Sandia Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	112	35.0%
2016	124	38.8%
2017	74	23.1%
2018	6	1.9%
2019	3	0.9%
2021	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Sandia Corporation patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 47

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 43

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 32

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 28

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 21

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 19

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 18

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 15

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 14

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 14

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

Top 15 of 169 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

Sandia Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sandia Corporation's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 14.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sandia Corporation against Nchain Licensing AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.9/100 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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