Where does Sophia School Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sophia School Corporation ranks #9,379 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 Sophia School Corporation hold?

Sophia School Corporation holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Sophia School Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sophia School Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sophia School Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sophia School Corporation's recent grant velocity is +138% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sophia School Corporation's patents?

Sophia School Corporation's patents average 9.0 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.

How is the Sophia School 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Sophia School Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sophia School Corporation focus on?

Sophia School Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 22 patents, ranking #74 of 1,064 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 27 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sophia ranks #9,379 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 27 technology areas.

#9,379
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 9.0
avg claims per patent: +138%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9379 · Foreign Corporation #9,379 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,379/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen TCL…
CPC-FOCUS G03B · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +138% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd. (±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 Sophia’s 44.9 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 12.3 pts (27%) Velocity 8.9 pts (20%) Breadth 18.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.4 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hobart Brothers · near

45
Nissin Chemical… · near

45
Reata Pharmaceutical… · near

45
Sophia School · this assignee

45
Vacon OY · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sophia's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Sophia?

Each dot is one of Sophia’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). Sophia’s own 9.0 claims/patent is at or below the 11.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Sophia vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Sophia's grants concentrate

Sophia School Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 64.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Sophia sits between Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd. and Syncrude Canada Ltd..

Sophia's three-year grant acceleration

Sophia School Corporation shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Shenzhen TCL Digi…

34
Shimano Component…

34
Smart

34
Sophia & William…

34
Stego-holding

34
Steris

34
Streem

34
Syncrude Canada

34
Sophia School ◀

34

What this shows Sophia holds 34 patents at rank #9,369, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sophia

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,369 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Sophia's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sophia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…), Sophia ranks #74 of 1,064 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Vacon OY 45 Nissin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. 45 Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings, LLC 45 Hobart Brothers LLC 45

Sophia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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.

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Sophia School Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.8%
2016	1	2.9%
2017	2	5.9%
2019	2	5.9%
2020	5	14.7%
2021	2	5.9%
2022	4	11.8%
2023	4	11.8%
2024	4	11.8%
2025partial year	7	20.6%

Which technologies does Sophia School Corporation patent most?

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 22

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 19

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 15

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Sophia School Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sophia School Corporation's lead technology class is 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), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03B
Ranked #9,379 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sophia School Corporation against Shenzhen TCL Digital Technology Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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