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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. ranks #3,510 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc. hold?

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

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

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc. focus on?

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 50 patents, ranking #365 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +21% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s patents?

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s patents average 15.9 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 Pictures 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 US Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 30 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 #3,510 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 30 technology areas.

#3,510
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3510 · US Corporation #3,510 · 105 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,510/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Navitas Semiconductor
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Navitas Semiconductor Limited (±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 56.3 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 16.1 pts (29%) Velocity 11.2 pts (20%) Breadth 19.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Newfrey · near

56
Safran Transmission… · near

56
Technische Universit… · near

56
Sony Pictures… · this assignee

56
University OF Ulsan… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 18.2 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 47.6% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (13 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2020. By volume, Sony sits between Navitas Semiconductor Limited and The Translational Genomics Research Institute.

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. moved from 22 to 37 grants (1.68x 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 #320. See the growth leaderboard.

Navitas Semicondu…

105
Prc-desoto Intern…

105
Raydium Semicondu…

105
Radware

105
Spirent Communica…

105
Teledyne Scientif…

105
Tianma Japan

105
The Translational…

105
Sony Pictures Ent… ◀

105

What this shows Sony holds 105 patents at rank #3,510, 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 #3,510 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 #365 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Technische Universiteit Delft 56 Newfrey LLC 56 Safran Transmission Systems 56 University OF Ulsan Foundation FOR Industry Cooperation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Vishay-Siliconix, LLC 15.9 avg Sensata Technologies, Inc. 15.9 avg Danisco US Inc. 15.9 avg Thermo King LLC 15.9 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	9.5%
2016	9	8.6%
2017	6	5.7%
2018	11	10.5%
2019	7	6.7%
2020	5	4.8%
2021	10	9.5%
2022	13	12.4%
2023	13	12.4%
2024	11	10.5%
2025partial year	10	9.5%

Which technologies does Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 50

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 32

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 30

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 18

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 13

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 5

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

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 2

Top 15 of 30 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 47.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #3,510 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. against Navitas Semiconductor Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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.