Where does Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #43 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 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha holds 8,041 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 270 technology areas.

What is Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 66.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 1,603 patents, ranking #23 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 270 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 10.3 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 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 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

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8,041 granted patents across 270 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sharp ranks #43 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8,041 patents across 270 technology areas.

#43
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.3/100): 10.3
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43 · Foreign Corporation #43 · 8,041 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 8.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #43/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tencent Technology…
CPC-BROAD H04W · 270 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tencent Technology (SHENZHEN) Company Limited (±2 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 Sharp’s 66.3 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 31.1 pts (47%) Velocity 4.1 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Konica Minolta… · near

66
THE Johns Hopkins… · near

66
China Petroleum &… · near

66
Sharp · this assignee

66
Volvo CAR · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sharp's Innovation Score is 66.3/100 (top 1% 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 Sharp?

Each dot is one of Sharp’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). Sharp’s own 10.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Sharp's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha received 3,579 grants versus 4,056 in 2015–2019 (-12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 1,054 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 457. Lead class H04W accounts for 19.9% of the portfolio across 270 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Denso Corporation (#39) and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (#47).

Sharp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha moved from 2,737 to 1,677 grants (0.61x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,416. See the growth leaderboard.

Denso

9,480
Hewlett-packard D…

8,656
Fujifilm

8,518
LG Display

8,410
Sharp ◀

8,041
Tencent Technolog…

8,039
Murata Manufactur…

8,029
Brother Kogyo

7,931
Semiconductor Ene…

7,844

What this shows Sharp holds 8,041 patents at rank #43, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sharp

By rank, the assignees closest to #43 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sharp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Sharp ranks #23 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Volvo CAR Corporation 66 China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 66 THE Johns Hopkins University 66 Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.3 here).

Toyobo Co., Ltd. 10.3 avg Kyungpook National University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation 10.3 avg Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. 10.3 avg Gudeng Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. 10.3 avg

Sharp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,016	12.6%
2016	849	10.6%
2017	699	8.7%
2018	657	8.2%
2019	835	10.4%
2020	1,054	13.1%
2021	848	10.5%
2022	647	8.0%
2023	457	5.7%
2024	573	7.1%
2025partial year	406	5.0%

Which technologies does Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1,603

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 1,589

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,459

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,219

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1,103

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 983

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 732

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 674

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 586

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 467

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 450

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 431

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 392

H04B - Transmission 345

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 290

Top 15 of 270 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

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 19.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #43 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha against Denso Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.3/100 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.