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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Somos, Inc. ranks #8,117 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 Somos, Inc. hold?

Somos, Inc. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Somos, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Somos, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Somos, Inc. focus on?

Somos, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 35 patents, ranking #886 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

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

Somos, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Somos, Inc.'s patents?

Somos, Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Somos, 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

Somos, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Somos ranks #8,117 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 8 technology areas.

#8,117
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8117 · US Corporation #8,117 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,117/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Silixa
CPC-NARROW H04L · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Silixa Ltd. (±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 Somos’s 39.3 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 12.8 pts (33%) Velocity 5.5 pts (14%) Breadth 10.0 pts (25%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andreas Hettich & KG · near

39
Echogen Power Systems · near

39
Japan OIL GAS AND… · near

39
Novavax · near

39
Somos · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Somos's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% 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 Somos?

Each dot is one of Somos’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). Somos’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Somos's grants concentrate

Somos, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Somos sits between Silixa Ltd. and TDA Research, Inc..

Somos's three-year grant acceleration

Somos, Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Silixa

40
Sixpoint Materials

40
Skyhigh Networks

40
Somerset Therapeu…

40
Storebound

40
Suncall

40
Swarovski Aktieng…

40
TDA Research

40
Somos ◀

40

What this shows Somos holds 40 patents at rank #8,116, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Somos

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,116 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Somos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Somos ranks #886 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co. KG 39 Novavax, Inc. 39 Japan OIL, GAS AND Metals National Corporation 39 Echogen Power Systems, LLC 39

Somos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Somos, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.5%
2017	10	25.0%
2018	4	10.0%
2019	3	7.5%
2020	5	12.5%
2021	3	7.5%
2022	2	5.0%
2023	5	12.5%
2024	2	5.0%
2025partial year	5	12.5%

Which technologies does Somos, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 35

H04M - Telephonic Communication 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

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 31

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 27

H04Q - Selecting 26

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

Top 8 of 8 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

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

Somos, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #8,117 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Somos, Inc. against Silixa Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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