Where does Sony Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Deutschland GmbH ranks #14,286 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 Deutschland GmbH hold?

Sony Deutschland GmbH holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Sony Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Sony Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 32.4 out of 100 (41st percentile 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 Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Sony Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 18 patents, ranking #1,502 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sony Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Deutschland GmbH'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 Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Sony Deutschland GmbH's patents average 15.7 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 Deutschland GmbH 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 Deutschland GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #14,286 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 12 technology areas.

#14,286
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14286 · Foreign Corporation #14,286 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,286/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Silicon Line
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Silicon Line GmbH (±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 32.4 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 10.7 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sony Deutschland · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 32.4/100 (41st 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 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.3 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.

Where Sony's grants concentrate

Sony Deutschland GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Sony sits between Silicon Line GmbH and Sportsbox.ai Inc..

Silicon Line

21
Sisense

21
Soilgenic

21
Sonifi Solutions

21
Specgx

21
Sphere Entertainm…

21
Spirox

21
Sportsbox ai

21
Sony Deutschland ◀

21

What this shows Sony holds 21 patents at rank #14,293, 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 #14,293 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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)

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

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 Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	23.8%
2016	9	42.9%
2017	4	19.0%
2018	3	14.3%

Which technologies does Sony Deutschland GmbH patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 18

H04B - Transmission 17

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 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

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 3

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Sony Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #14,286 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Deutschland GmbH against Silicon Line GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.4/100 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.