Where does Sony Dadc Austria AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Dadc Austria AG ranks #27,468 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 Dadc Austria AG hold?

Sony Dadc Austria AG holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Sony Dadc Austria AG's Innovation Score?

Sony Dadc Austria AG has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 46% 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 Dadc Austria AG focus on?

Sony Dadc Austria AG's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sony Dadc Austria AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Dadc Austria AG'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 Dadc Austria AG's patents?

Sony Dadc Austria AG's patents average 19.9 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 Dadc Austria AG 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 Dadc Austria AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #27,468 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 21 technology areas.

#27,468
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27468 · Foreign Corporation #27,468 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,468/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Solarreserve…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Solarreserve Technology, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sony Dadc Austria · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 46% 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.

Where Sony's grants concentrate

Sony Dadc Austria AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Sony sits between Solarreserve Technology, LLC and Soundchip SA.

Solarreserve Tech…

10
Solution Expert 3…

10
Somagenics

10
Sonaca

10
Sony Honda Mobili…

10
Soosan INT

10
Soprema

10
Soundchip

10
Sony Dadc Austria ◀

10

What this shows Sony holds 10 patents at rank #27,374, 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 #27,374 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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)

36 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

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 Dadc Austria AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	50.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2017	4	40.0%

Which technologies does Sony Dadc Austria AG patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,468

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Sony Dadc Austria AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Dadc Austria AG's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #27,468 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Dadc Austria AG against Solarreserve Technology, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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

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.