Where does Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC ranks #4,064 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 Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC hold?

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's Innovation Score?

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's patents?

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's patents average 22.0 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 Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC 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

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC focus on?

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 62 patents, ranking #39 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #4,064 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,064
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 22.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4064 · US Corporation #4,064 · 89 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,064/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Semmle
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Semmle Limited (±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 43.3 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 15.5 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
De' Longhi Appliance… · near

43
Hydac Filtertechnik · near

43
Sony Computer… · this assignee

43
Draka Comteq B V · near

43
Hong ANN Tool… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 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 22.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sony's grants concentrate

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 69.7% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (68 grants) versus a trough of 21 in 2016. By volume, Sony sits between Soucy International Inc. and Vishay-Siliconix, LLC.

Soucy Internation…

89
Semmle

89
Sharp NEC Display…

89
Shutterstock

89
Taipei Medical Un…

89
Trumpf Laser- UND…

89
The University of…

89
Vishay-siliconix

89
Sony Computer Ent… ◀

89

What this shows Sony holds 89 patents at rank #4,066, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sony

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,066 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sony, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Sony ranks #39 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

De' Longhi Appliances S.R.L. CON Unico Socio 43 Hydac Filtertechnik GMBH 43 Draka Comteq B.V. 43 Hong ANN Tool Industries Co., Ltd. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.0 here).

Rosco, Inc. 22.0 avg Novomer, Inc. 22.0 avg Shoretel, Inc. 22.0 avg Avalara, Inc. 22.0 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	68	76.4%
2016	21	23.6%

Which technologies does Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 62

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 35

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

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 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 7

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 15 of 17 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 Computer Entertainment America, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC's lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 69.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #4,064 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC against Soucy International Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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