Where does Sony Group Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Group Corporation ranks #13 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 Group Corporation hold?

Sony Group Corporation holds 20,593 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 328 technology areas.

What is Sony Group Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sony Group Corporation has an Innovation Score of 73.4 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 Group Corporation focus on?

Sony Group Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 6,729 patents, ranking #3 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 328 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sony Group Corporation's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Group Corporation's patents?

Sony Group Corporation's patents average 15.6 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 Group Corporation 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 Group Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20,593 granted patents across 328 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #13 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20,593 patents across 328 technology areas.

#13
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.4/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13 · Foreign Corporation #13 · 20,593 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 21K grants
TOP-DECILE #13/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Amazon
CPC-BROAD H04N · 328 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (±468 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 73.4 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 34.3 pts (47%) Velocity 4.7 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Micro Devices · near

73
Qualcomm · near

73
Sony Group · this assignee

73
Motherson Innovations · near

73
Oracle International · near

73
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 73.4/100 (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 15.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 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.

How Sony's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sony Group Corporation received 8,681 grants versus 10,938 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 2,526 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1,267. Lead class H04N accounts for 32.7% of the portfolio across 328 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC (#9) and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (#17).

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Group Corporation moved from 6,370 to 4,518 grants (0.71x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,123. See the growth leaderboard.

Microsoft Technol…

24,392
Google

24,290
Huawei

23,942
Toyota Jidosha

21,526
Sony Group ◀

20,593
Amazon

20,125
Ford Global

18,527
BOE Technology Gr…

18,263
Telefonaktiebolag…

15,598

What this shows Sony holds 20,593 patents at rank #13, 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 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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 H04N (Pictorial Communication), Sony ranks #3 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (73 here).

Motherson Innovations Company Limited 73 Qualcomm Technologies Inc. 73 Oracle International Corporation 73 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 73

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Arkema France 15.6 avg Ademco Inc. 15.6 avg Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. 15.6 avg N.V. Nutricia 15.6 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

73 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 Group Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2,526	12.3%
2016	2,253	10.9%
2017	2,195	10.7%
2018	1,757	8.5%
2019	2,207	10.7%
2020	2,289	11.1%
2021	1,874	9.1%
2022	1,771	8.6%
2023	1,267	6.2%
2024	1,480	7.2%
2025partial year	974	4.7%

Which technologies does Sony Group Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6,729

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4,237

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3,622

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3,170

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2,484

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1,572

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1,562

H04B - Transmission 1,475

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1,287

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1,222

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 981

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 808

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 728

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 677

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 677

Top 15 of 328 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 Group Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Group Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 32.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #13 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Group Corporation against Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.4/100 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.