Where does Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV ranks #13,167 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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV hold?

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's Innovation Score?

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV has an Innovation Score of 33.9 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's recent grant velocity is +240% 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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's patents?

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's patents average 17.4 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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV 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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV

Q: What technology areas does Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV focus on?

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 13 patents, ranking #427 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #13,167 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 8 technology areas.

#13,167
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.9/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +240%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13167 · Foreign Corporation #13,167 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,167/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SkyKick
CPC-NARROW G01S · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +240% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SkyKick, 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 33.9 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 11.0 pts (32%) Velocity 2.5 pts (7%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 33.9/100 (46th percentile 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 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 56.5% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Sony sits between SkyKick, Inc. and Sun Nuclear Corporation.

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

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What this shows Sony holds 23 patents at rank #13,166, 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 #13,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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)

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	5	21.7%
2020	3	13.0%
2021	8	34.8%
2022	4	17.4%
2023	1	4.3%
2024	1	4.3%
2025partial year	1	4.3%

Which technologies does Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 1

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 Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 56.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #13,167 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV against SkyKick, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.9/100 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

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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