Where does Sony Corporation OF America rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Corporation OF America ranks #3,636 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 Corporation OF America hold?

Sony Corporation OF America holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Sony Corporation OF America's Innovation Score?

Sony Corporation OF America has an Innovation Score of 66.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sony Corporation OF America focus on?

Sony Corporation OF America's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 35 patents, ranking #428 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sony Corporation OF America's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Corporation OF America's recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sony Corporation OF America's patents?

Sony Corporation OF America's patents average 19.2 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 Sony Corporation OF America 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

Sony Corporation OF America

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 29 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #3,636 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 29 technology areas.

#3,636
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.5/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3636 · Foreign Corporation #3,636 · 101 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,636/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Optum Services…
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 29 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Optum Services (Ireland) 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 66.5 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 16.0 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 19.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rockwell Collins · near

67
Tmeic · near

67
Sanofi · near

67
Sony OF America · this assignee

67
Thales Canada · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 66.5/100 (top 1% 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 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 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 Corporation OF America is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 34.7% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (22 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Sony sits between Optum Services (Ireland) Limited and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc..

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

Sony Corporation OF America shows 46 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Optum Services (I…

101
Paige AI

101
Ridge Tool

101
Semikron Elektron…

101
Tepha

101
The Radio Flyer

101
The United States…

101
Thermo Fisher Sci…

101
Sony OF America ◀

101

What this shows Sony holds 101 patents at rank #3,636, 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 #3,636 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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 G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Sony ranks #428 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Sanofi 67 Tmeic Corporation 67 Rockwell Collins, Inc. 67 Thales Canada Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Malikie Innovations Limited 19.2 avg Intel Mobile Communications GmbH 19.2 avg Dril-Quip, Inc. 19.2 avg SF Motors, Inc. 19.2 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Sony Corporation OF America patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.0%
2016	4	4.0%
2017	4	4.0%
2018	3	3.0%
2019	8	7.9%
2020	4	4.0%
2021	1	1.0%
2022	3	3.0%
2023	21	20.8%
2024	22	21.8%
2025partial year	27	26.7%

Which technologies does Sony Corporation OF America patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 35

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 16

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 15

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 7

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 7

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 6

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

Top 15 of 29 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 Corporation OF America's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Corporation OF America's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 34.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #3,636 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Corporation OF America against Optum Services (Ireland) Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.5/100 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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