Where does Sandoz AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sandoz AG ranks #3,894 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 Sandoz AG hold?

Sandoz AG holds 93 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Sandoz AG's Innovation Score?

Sandoz AG has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sandoz AG focus on?

Sandoz AG's top technology area is C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds) with 46 patents, ranking #177 of 3,165 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sandoz AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sandoz AG's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Sandoz AG's patents?

Sandoz AG's patents average 15.4 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 Sandoz AG 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

Sandoz AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 93 granted patents across 21 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: C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sandoz ranks #3,894 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 93 patents across 21 technology areas.

#3,894
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3894 · Foreign Corporation #3,894 · 93 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 93 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,894/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH OMS Investments
CPC-FOCUS C07D · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: OMS Investments, 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 Sandoz’s 43.3 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 15.7 pts (36%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 16.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brilliant Light Power · near

43
Prothena Biosciences · near

43
Sandoz · this assignee

43
Shiroki · near

43
Winview · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sandoz's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Sandoz?

Each dot is one of Sandoz’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). Sandoz’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sandoz's grants concentrate

Sandoz AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 49.5% of grants classified under C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (18 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Sandoz sits between OMS Investments, Inc. and Youngo Limited.

Sandoz's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sandoz AG moved from 25 to 8 grants (0.32x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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93
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93
Sonion Nederland…

93
Youngo

93
Sandoz ◀

93

What this shows Sandoz holds 93 patents at rank #3,896, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sandoz

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,896 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sandoz, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds), Sandoz ranks #177 of 3,165 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Winview, Inc. 43 Shiroki Corporation 43 Prothena Biosciences Limited 43 Brilliant Light Power, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Mikro Mesa Technology Co., Ltd. 15.4 avg Mitac Computing Technology Corporation 15.4 avg Universitat Stuttgart 15.4 avg Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG 15.4 avg

Sandoz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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.

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Sandoz AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	19.4%
2016	17	18.3%
2017	12	12.9%
2018	8	8.6%
2019	7	7.5%
2020	10	10.8%
2021	8	8.6%
2022	4	4.3%
2024	4	4.3%
2025partial year	5	5.4%

Which technologies does Sandoz AG patent most?

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 46

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 44

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 32

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

C07K - Peptides 14

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 10

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 8

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 8

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 6

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

B01D - Separation 4

C12Y - Enzymes 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Top 15 of 21 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

Sandoz AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sandoz AG's lead technology class is C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds), 49.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07D
Ranked #3,894 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sandoz AG against OMS Investments, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.