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Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 8 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #13,166 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 8 technology areas.

#13,166
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100)
16.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13166 · Foreign Corporation #13,166 · 23 grants

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

  • GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
  • MID-PACK #13,166/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sino-American…
  • CPC-NARROW H04N · 8 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sino-American Silicon Products 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 Sony’s 50.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Sony

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Sony?

Each dot is one of Sony’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). Sony’s own 16.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Sony vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 22.922.92323.1 51015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. - 23, 10.39Sino-american Sil…SkyKick, Inc. - 23, 16.48SkykickSlingshot Biosciences, Inc. - 23, 29Slingshot Bioscie…Smiths Detection Montreal Inc. - 23, 13.52Smiths Detection…Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV - 23, 17.35Sony Depthsensing…Spacelabs Healthcare L.L.C. - 23, 18.17Spacelabs Healthc…SpiderOak, Inc. - 23, 21.04SpideroakStudy Social, Inc. - 23, 19.87Study SocialSony Advanced Visual Sensing AG - 23, 16.57Sony Advanced Vis…
Sony vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Sony's grants concentrate

Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 91.3% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2021. By volume, Sony sits between Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. and Study Social, Inc..

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Who files at Sony's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Sony holds 23 patents at rank #13,165, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Sony

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,165 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2021 5 21.7%
2022 5 21.7%
2023 6 26.1%
2024 5 21.7%
2025partial year 2 8.7%

Which technologies does Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG patent most?

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

Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 91.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
  • Ranked #13,166 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG against Sino-American Silicon Products Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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

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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

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.