Where does Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. ranks #1,587 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 Laboratories of America, Inc. hold?

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. holds 261 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 70 technology areas.

What is Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -94% 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 Laboratories of America, Inc.'s patents?

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s patents average 16.1 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 Laboratories of America, 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 US Corporation

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. focus on?

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 59 patents, ranking #250 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 70 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 261 granted patents across 70 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sharp ranks #1,587 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 261 patents across 70 technology areas.

#1,587
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1587 · US Corporation #1,587 · 261 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 261 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,587/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beth Israel…
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 70 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 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 Sharp’s 54.3 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 19.2 pts (35%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Masonite · near

54
Georgia State… · near

54
Sharp Laboratories… · this assignee

54
Toshiba Materials · near

54
University of… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sharp's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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 Laboratories of America, Inc. received 14 grants versus 247 in 2015–2019 (-94% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 82 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 2. Lead class Y02E accounts for 22.6% of the portfolio across 70 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Unisantis Electronics Singapore PTE. Ltd. (#1,583) and Apex Brands, Inc. (#1,591).

Sharp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. moved from 30 to 2 grants (0.07x 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 #3,214. See the growth leaderboard.

Unisantis Singapo…

262
Beth Israel Deaco…

261
Ememory Technology

261
Kyushu University…

261
Sharp Laboratorie… ◀

261
Brocade Communica…

260
Eagle Technology

260
Thermo Fisher Sci…

260
Apex Brands

259

What this shows Sharp holds 261 patents at rank #1,587, 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 #1,587 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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 Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Sharp ranks #250 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd. 54 Georgia State University Research Foundation 54 University of Saskatchewan 54 Masonite Corporation 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd 16.1 avg WestRock Shared Services, LLC 16.1 avg Wayne Fueling Systems LLC 16.1 avg Arris Enterprises LLC 16.1 avg

Sharp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

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 Laboratories of America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	82	31.4%
2016	58	22.2%
2017	64	24.5%
2018	25	9.6%
2019	18	6.9%
2020	10	3.8%
2021	2	0.8%
2022	2	0.8%

Which technologies does Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 59

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 43

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 43

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 40

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 36

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 21

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 14

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 12

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 12

Top 15 of 70 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 Laboratories of America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 22.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,587 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. against Unisantis Electronics Singapore PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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

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