Where does Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation ranks #25,177 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 Semiconductor Innovation Corporation hold?

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.0 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 Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's patents?

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's patents average 11.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation focus on?

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 3 patents, ranking #3,796 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sharp ranks #25,177 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#25,177
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.0/100): 11.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25177 · Foreign Corporation #25,177 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,177/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sequoia Sciences
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sequoia Sciences, 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 47.0 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 8.6 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 11.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 6.7 pts (14%)

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What this shows Sharp's Innovation Score is 47.0/100 (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 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 11.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 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.

Where Sharp's grants concentrate

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 27.3% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Sharp sits between Sequoia Sciences, Inc. and Shenzhen Deren Electronic Co., Ltd..

Sharp's three-year grant acceleration

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows Sharp holds 11 patents at rank #25,242, 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 #25,242 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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 G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Sharp ranks #3,796 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology 47 The University of New Brunswick 47 Ultravision Technologies, LLC 47 Shenzhen SNC Opto Electronic Co., Ltd 47

Sharp'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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	3	27.3%
2023	4	36.4%
2024	1	9.1%
2025partial year	3	27.3%

Which technologies does Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

G11C - Static Stores 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

Top 11 of 11 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 Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 27.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #25,177 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation against Sequoia Sciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.0/100 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.