Where does Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC ranks #1,305 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 Interactive Entertainment America LLC hold?

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC holds 325 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's Innovation Score?

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.7 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's recent grant velocity is -84% 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 Interactive Entertainment America LLC's patents?

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's patents average 20.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Q: What technology areas does Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC focus on?

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 224 patents. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC 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 PatentsView assignee record - 325 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #1,305 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 325 patents across 24 technology areas.

#1,305
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.7/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1305 · US Corporation #1,305 · 325 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 325 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,305/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chugai Seiyaku
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha (±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
Grains Research AND… · near

50
siOPTICA · near

50
Sony Interactive… · this assignee

50
Antecip Bioventures II · near

50
Markforged · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 49.7/100 (top 14% 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 Interactive Entertainment America LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 68.9% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (80 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Sony sits between Sumitomo Riko Company Limited and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC moved from 111 to 3 grants (0.03x 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 #3,257. See the growth leaderboard.

Sumitomo Riko

326
University OF Con…

326
Chugai Seiyaku

325
Continental Reife…

325
Sony Interactive… ◀

325
Ablic

324
Express Scripts S…

324
PFU

324
The Hong Kong Uni…

324

What this shows Sony holds 325 patents at rank #1,305, 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 #1,305 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Grains Research AND Development Corporation 50 siOPTICA GmbH 50 Antecip Bioventures II LLC 50 Markforged, Inc 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

CureVac AG 20.3 avg Proxense, LLC 20.3 avg STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS 20.3 avg McAfee, LLC 20.3 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	54	16.6%
2017	80	24.6%
2018	77	23.7%
2019	69	21.2%
2020	36	11.1%
2021	6	1.8%
2023	2	0.6%
2024	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 224

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 118

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 113

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 105

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 43

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 34

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 27

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 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 5

H04H - Broadcast Communication 4

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

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,305

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.7 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 Interactive Entertainment America LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC's lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 68.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #1,305 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC against Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.7/100 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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