Where does Soken, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Soken, Inc. ranks #4,434 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 Soken, Inc. hold?

Soken, Inc. holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 90 technology areas.

What is Soken, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Soken, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Soken, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Soken, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Soken, Inc.'s patents?

Soken, Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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.

How is the Soken, 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 Foreign Corporation

Soken, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Soken, Inc. focus on?

Soken, Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 13 patents, ranking #427 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 90 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 90 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Soken ranks #4,434 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 90 technology areas.

#4,434
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4434 · Foreign Corporation #4,434 · 80 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,434/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pratt Retail…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 90 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC (±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 Soken’s 48.8 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 15.2 pts (31%) Velocity 2.5 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Industry-academia… · near

49
Montage Technology · near

49
Soken · this assignee

49
Twist Bioscience · near

49
University of Vienna · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Soken's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Soken?

Each dot is one of Soken’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). Soken’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Soken's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Soken, Inc. received 49 grants versus 30 in 2015–2019 (+63% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 18 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class G01S accounts for 16.3% of the portfolio across 90 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC (#4,429) and Southern Research Institute (#4,437).

Soken's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Soken, Inc. moved from 45 to 17 grants (0.38x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Pratt Retail Spec…

80
Shenzhen BYD Auto…

80
Sila Nanotechnolo…

80
SK Biopharmaceuti…

80
SPM Oil & Gas

80
Sumitomo Heavy In…

80
Silk Road Medical

80
Southern Research…

80
Soken ◀

80

What this shows Soken holds 80 patents at rank #4,433, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Soken

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,433 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Soken, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Soken ranks #427 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Industry-academia Cooperation Group OF Sejong University 49 University of Vienna 49 Twist Bioscience Corporation 49 Montage Technology, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi 10.2 avg Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, LLC 10.2 avg Kubota Corporation 10.2 avg The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 10.2 avg

Soken's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Soken, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.3%
2016	1	1.3%
2017	3	3.8%
2018	12	15.0%
2019	13	16.3%
2020	18	22.5%
2021	14	17.5%
2022	6	7.5%
2023	8	10.0%
2024	3	3.8%
2025partial year	1	1.3%

Which technologies does Soken, Inc. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 13

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 9

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

H03K - Pulse Technique 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 6

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 6

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 5

H04B - Transmission 5

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 5

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 5

Top 15 of 90 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

Soken, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Soken, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 16.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #4,434 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Soken, Inc. against Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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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