Where does Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. ranks #21,799 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. hold?

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.7 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 Sobute NEW Materials Co., 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

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. focus on?

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C04B (LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C04B (LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sobute ranks #21,799 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#21,799
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21799 · Foreign Corporation #21,799 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,799/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH SKF MARINE
CPC-FOCUS C04B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SKF Marine Gmbh (±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
Sobute NEW Materials · this assignee

46
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Sobute's Innovation Score is 46.1/100 (top 22% 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 Sobute's grants concentrate

Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 92.3% of grants classified under C04B (LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sobute sits between SKF Marine Gmbh and Solidcam Ltd..

SKF Marine

13
Skydex

13
Smart Radar System

13
Soasta

13
Sociedad Espanola…

13
Solarwinds Worldw…

13
Soleras Advanced…

13
Solidcam

13
Sobute NEW Materi… ◀

13

What this shows Sobute holds 13 patents at rank #21,746, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sobute

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (LIME)

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

Sobute's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	2	15.4%
2020	2	15.4%
2022	1	7.7%
2023	2	15.4%
2024	5	38.5%

Which technologies does Sobute NEW Materials Co., Ltd. patent most?

C04B - LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE 12

C08F - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS 8

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

Y02W - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT 2

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 1

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 1

C01P - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 1

C09C - TREATMENT OF INORGANIC MATERIALS, OTHER THAN FIBROUS FILLERS, TO ENHANCE THEIR PIGMENTING OR FILLING PROPERTIES ; PREPARATION OF CARBON BLACK ; ; PREPARATION OF INORGANIC MATERIALS WHICH ARE NO SINGLE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS AND WHICH ARE MAINLY USED AS PIGMENTS OR FILLERS 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,799

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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