Where does Sanmina Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sanmina Corporation ranks #3,826 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 Sanmina Corporation hold?

Sanmina Corporation holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Sanmina Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sanmina Corporation has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Sanmina Corporation's recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Sanmina Corporation's patents?

Sanmina Corporation's patents average 17.2 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 Sanmina 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

Sanmina Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sanmina Corporation focus on?

Sanmina Corporation's top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 35 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 35 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sanmina ranks #3,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 35 technology areas.

#3,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3826 · US Corporation #3,826 · 95 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Raven Industries
CPC-FOCUS H05K · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Raven Industries, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dynamics · near

49
Fluid Energy Group · near

49
Hyundai Autron · near

49
Sanmina · this assignee

49
Universite DE Poitiers · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sanmina's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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 Sanmina's grants concentrate

Sanmina Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 36.8% of grants classified under H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Sanmina sits between Raven Industries, inc. and Adesto Technologies Corporation.

Sanmina's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sanmina Corporation moved from 43 to 13 grants (0.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Raven Industries

95
Ribbon Communicat…

95
S P C M

95
Shenzhen Skyworth…

95
Woodwelding

95
u-blox

95
Sanmina ◀

95
Arbor Networks

94
Adesto

94

What this shows Sanmina holds 95 patents at rank #3,828, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sanmina

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,828 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sanmina, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Dynamics Inc. 49 Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd. 49 Fluid Energy Group Ltd. 49 Universite DE Poitiers 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

Shutterstock, Inc. 17.2 avg Applied Minds, LLC 17.2 avg Daqri, LLC 17.2 avg Beiersdorf AG 17.2 avg

Sanmina's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Sanmina Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.2%
2016	7	7.4%
2017	14	14.7%
2018	12	12.6%
2019	17	17.9%
2020	15	15.8%
2021	11	11.6%
2022	4	4.2%
2023	3	3.2%
2024	6	6.3%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does Sanmina Corporation patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 35

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 26

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 24

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 9

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 8

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

G11C - Static Stores 4

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 4

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,826

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Sanmina Corporation's lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #3,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sanmina Corporation against Raven Industries, inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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

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