Where does Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation ranks #133 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation hold?

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation holds 2,791 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 154 technology areas.

What is Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation has an Innovation Score of 74.3 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation focus on?

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 1,595 patents, ranking #18 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 154 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's recent grant velocity is +386% 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's patents?

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's patents average 15.0 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 Foreign Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Q: How is the Sony Semiconductor Solutions 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 PatentsView assignee record - 2,791 granted patents across 154 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sony ranks #133 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,791 patents across 154 technology areas.

#133
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.3/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +386%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R133 · Foreign Corporation #133 · 2,791 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #133/49,997
NEAR-PEER NXP B V
CPC-WIDE H04N · 154 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +386% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NXP B.V. (±8 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 74.3 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 27.4 pts (37%) Velocity 12.9 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sony Semiconductor… · this assignee

74
Cisco Technology · near

74
BOE Technology Group · near

74
Argo AI · near

74
Rovi Guides · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sony's Innovation Score is 74.3/100 (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 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation received 1,976 grants versus 407 in 2015–2019 (+386% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 580 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 22. Lead class H04N accounts for 57.1% of the portfolio across 154 subclasses. Volume neighbours: TDK Corporation (#129) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (#137).

Sony's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation moved from 729 to 1,411 grants (1.94x 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 #228. See the growth leaderboard.

TDK

2,914
Juniper Networks

2,902
Beijing Xiaomi Mo…

2,840
Comcast Cable Com…

2,828
Sony Semiconducto… ◀

2,791
NXP B V

2,783
Salesforce com

2,773
Wells Fargo Bank…

2,773
Fraunhofer-gesell…

2,763

What this shows Sony holds 2,791 patents at rank #133, 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 #133 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 #18 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Cisco Technology, Inc. 74 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 74 Rovi Guides, Inc. 74 Argo AI, LLC 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Emerson Electric Co. 15.0 avg Southwest Research Institute 15.0 avg Telecommunication Systems, Inc. 15.0 avg Daon Holdings Limited 15.0 avg

Sony's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	22	0.8%
2017	102	3.7%
2018	119	4.3%
2019	164	5.9%
2020	225	8.1%
2021	340	12.2%
2022	447	16.0%
2023	384	13.8%
2024	580	20.8%
2025partial year	408	14.6%

Which technologies does Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,595

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1,237

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 357

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 266

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 253

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 240

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 196

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 187

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 153

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 150

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 135

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 132

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 126

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 116

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 115

Top 15 of 154 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 Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #133 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation against TDK Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.3/100 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

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