Where does Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. ranks #1,704 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. hold?

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. holds 241 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.0 out of 100 (top 5% 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. focus on?

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 222 patents, ranking #94 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +513% 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s patents?

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 Olympus Medical Solutions 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 241 granted patents across 46 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #1,704 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 241 patents across 46 technology areas.

#1,704
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.0/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +513%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1704 · Foreign Corporation #1,704 · 241 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 241 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,704/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dometic Sweden AB
CPC-WIDE A61B · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +513% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dometic Sweden AB (±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 58.0 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 19.0 pts (33%) Velocity 6.3 pts (11%) Breadth 24.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LTS Lohmann… · near

58
NewSouth Innovations… · near

58
Smart Wires · near

58
Sony Olympus… · this assignee

58
Wisk Aero · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 58.0/100 (top 5% 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 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 92.1% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (51 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2017. By volume, Sony sits between Stats ChipPAC, Ltd. and Entit Software LLC.

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. moved from 111 to 105 grants (0.95x 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 #1,335. See the growth leaderboard.

Stats Chippac

242
Dometic Sweden AB

241
Lextar

241
Roland

241
Southwire

241
Sony Olympus Medi… ◀

241
Arkray

240
Dana Heavy Vehicl…

240
Entit Software

239

What this shows Sony holds 241 patents at rank #1,704, 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 #1,704 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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 A61B (Diagnosis), Sony ranks #94 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG 58 NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited 58 Wisk Aero LLC 58 Smart Wires Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

Danfoss A/S 14.7 avg ASM Technology Singapore PTE Ltd 14.7 avg Becton, Dickinson and Company 14.7 avg Beckman Coulter, Inc. 14.7 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	1.7%
2018	8	3.3%
2019	20	8.3%
2020	40	16.6%
2021	51	21.2%
2022	40	16.6%
2023	34	14.1%
2024	31	12.9%
2025partial year	13	5.4%

Which technologies does Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 222

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 115

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 99

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 37

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 18

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 17

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 14

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 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 7

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

Top 15 of 46 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 Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 92.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,704 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. against Stats ChipPAC, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.0/100 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.