Where does Sentinel Connector Systems rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sentinel Connector Systems ranks #13,146 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 Sentinel Connector Systems hold?

Sentinel Connector Systems holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Sentinel Connector Systems's Innovation Score?

Sentinel Connector Systems has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sentinel Connector Systems's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sentinel Connector Systems's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Sentinel Connector Systems's patents?

Sentinel Connector Systems's patents average 17.5 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 Sentinel Connector Systems 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

Sentinel Connector Systems

Q: What technology areas does Sentinel Connector Systems focus on?

Sentinel Connector Systems's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 22 patents, ranking #149 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sentinel ranks #13,146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 12 technology areas.

#13,146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13146 · US Corporation #13,146 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Schott Glass (SUZHOU)
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Schott Glass Technologies (SUZHOU) Co. 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.

How Sentinel’s 47.1 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 11.0 pts (23%) Velocity 13.3 pts (28%) Breadth 12.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sentinel Connector… · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sentinel's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 Sentinel?

Each dot is one of Sentinel’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). Sentinel’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sentinel's grants concentrate

Sentinel Connector Systems is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 95.7% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Sentinel sits between Schott Glass Technologies (SUZHOU) Co. Ltd. and Shenzhen Kanger Technology Co., Ltd.

Sentinel's three-year grant acceleration

Sentinel Connector Systems shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Schott Glass (Suz…

23
Schott Pharma & K…

23
SEA Sonic

23
Sensory Incorpora…

23
Serta

23
Shandong Yingxin…

23
Shanghai Institut…

23
Shenzhen Kanger T…

23
Sentinel Connecto… ◀

23

What this shows Sentinel holds 23 patents at rank #13,136, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sentinel

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,136 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Sentinel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sentinel Connector Systems patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.3%
2017	2	8.7%
2018	7	30.4%
2019	1	4.3%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	2	8.7%
2022	1	4.3%
2023	2	8.7%
2024	5	21.7%
2025partial year	1	4.3%

Which technologies does Sentinel Connector Systems patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 22

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H04B - Transmission 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Sentinel Connector Systems's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sentinel Connector Systems's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 95.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #13,146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sentinel Connector Systems against Schott Glass Technologies (SUZHOU) Co. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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.