Where does Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. ranks #4,062 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. hold?

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.0 out of 100 (top 3% 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. focus on?

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 41 patents. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patents?

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patents average 14.1 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Sharp ranks #4,062 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 31 technology areas.

#4,062
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4062 · Foreign Corporation #4,062 · 89 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,062/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanford Burnham…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 31 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (±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
Group14 · near

61
Ningbo Institute OF… · near

61
Sharp NEC Display… · this assignee

61
UOP · near

61
Xi'an Jiaotong… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sharp's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (top 3% 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 Sharp's grants concentrate

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 46.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (24 grants) versus a trough of 15 in 2023. By volume, Sharp sits between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and Trumpf Laser- UND Systemtechnik GMBH.

Sharp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. moved from 22 to 57 grants (2.59x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sanford Burnham P…

89
Sony

89
Soucy Internation…

89
Semmle

89
Shutterstock

89
Sony Computer Ent…

89
Taipei Medical Un…

89
Trumpf Laser- UND…

89
Sharp NEC Display… ◀

89

What this shows Sharp holds 89 patents at rank #4,064, 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 #4,064 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Xi'an Jiaotong University 61 Ningbo Institute OF Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 61 UOP LLC 61 Group14 Technologies, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

University OF Science AND Technology OF China 14.1 avg Bae Systems Hägglunds Aktiebolag 14.1 avg Noxell Corporation 14.1 avg Fontem Ventures B.V. 14.1 avg

Sharp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	22	24.7%
2022	24	27.0%
2023	15	16.9%
2024	18	20.2%
2025partial year	10	11.2%

Which technologies does Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 41

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 39

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 35

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

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 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,062

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.0 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

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 46.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,062 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. against Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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

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