Where does Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. ranks #121 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 Inc. hold?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. holds 3,038 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 117 technology areas.

What is Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. has an Innovation Score of 70.2 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%).

Is Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +158% 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 Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s patents?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s patents average 15.2 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 Interactive Entertainment Inc. 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 Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. focus on?

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'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 1,537 patents, ranking #1 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 117 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,038 granted patents across 117 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 #121 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,038 patents across 117 technology areas.

#121
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.2/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +158%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R121 · Foreign Corporation #121 · 3,038 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #121/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mediatek
CPC-WIDE A63F · 117 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +158% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mediatek Inc. (±2 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 70.2 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 27.7 pts (39%) Velocity 8.4 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CreateMe · near

70
Sony Interactive… · this assignee

70
ResMed Pty · near

70
PETRÓLEO Brasileiro… · near

70
Igus · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 70.2/100 (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 15.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 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 Interactive Entertainment Inc. received 1,986 grants versus 771 in 2015–2019 (+158% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 437 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 94. Lead class A63F accounts for 50.6% of the portfolio across 117 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Medtronic, Inc. (#117) and Industrial Technology Research Institute (#125).

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. moved from 1,013 to 1,270 grants (1.25x 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 #701. See the growth leaderboard.

Medtronic

3,184
Stmicroelectronics

3,182
Raytheon

3,108
Nvidia

3,075
Sony Interactive… ◀

3,038
Mediatek

3,036
Pioneer Hi-bred I…

3,033
Centre National D…

3,025
Industrial Techno…

3,023

What this shows Sony holds 3,038 patents at rank #121, 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 #121 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). In A63F (Card), Sony ranks #1 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

CreateMe Technologies Inc. 70 ResMed Pty Ltd 70 PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS 70 Igus GMBH 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg Melexis Technologies NV 15.2 avg Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 15.2 avg TRW Automotive U.S. LLC 15.2 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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 · 2016–2025

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 Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	94	3.1%
2017	176	5.8%
2018	204	6.7%
2019	297	9.8%
2020	302	9.9%
2021	414	13.6%
2022	437	14.4%
2023	403	13.3%
2024	430	14.2%
2025partial year	281	9.2%

Which technologies does Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1,537

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,387

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 783

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 765

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 417

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 367

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 301

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 267

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 195

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 108

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 106

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 77

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 65

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 62

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 62

Top 15 of 117 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 Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.'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), 50.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #121 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. against Medtronic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.2/100 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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