Where does Sentons Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sentons Inc. ranks #6,073 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 Sentons Inc. hold?

Sentons Inc. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Sentons Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sentons Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.0 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sentons Inc. focus on?

Sentons Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 53 patents, ranking #927 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sentons Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sentons Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Sentons Inc.'s patents?

Sentons Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Sentons Inc. 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

Sentons Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 12 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sentons ranks #6,073 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 12 technology areas.

#6,073
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6073 · Foreign Corporation #6,073 · 56 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,073/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Senomyx
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Senomyx, 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 Sentons’s 41.0 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 14.0 pts (34%) Velocity 2.9 pts (7%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Isolynx · near

41
Martin Engineering · near

41
Sentons · this assignee

41
Utac Headquarters Pte · near

41
Martin Professional… · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sentons's Innovation Score is 41.0/100 (top 34% 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 Sentons?

Each dot is one of Sentons’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). Sentons’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sentons's grants concentrate

Sentons Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 94.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Sentons sits between Senomyx, Inc. and Tendyron Corporation.

Sentons's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sentons Inc. moved from 23 to 10 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Senomyx

56
Sentera

56
Shenzhen Xunweiji…

56
Storagecraft Tech…

56
Shantou P&C Plast…

56
Sigma-aldrich

56
Silgan Containers

56
Tendyron

56
Sentons ◀

56

What this shows Sentons holds 56 patents at rank #6,075, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sentons

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,075 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sentons, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Sentons ranks #927 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Utac Headquarters Pte. Ltd. 41 Isolynx, LLC 41 Martin Engineering Company 41 Martin Professional APS 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Pismo Labs Technology Limited 19.8 avg The Boeing Company 19.8 avg Analytics For Life Inc. 19.8 avg Johnson Outdoors Inc. 19.8 avg

Sentons's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Sentons Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.4%
2016	6	10.7%
2017	4	7.1%
2018	9	16.1%
2019	12	21.4%
2020	5	8.9%
2021	6	10.7%
2022	6	10.7%
2023	3	5.4%
2024	1	1.8%
2025partial year	1	1.8%

Which technologies does Sentons Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 53

H03G - Control OF Amplification 9

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 5

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work 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

Sentons Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sentons Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 94.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #6,073 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sentons Inc. against Senomyx, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.0/100 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

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.