Where does Sophos Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sophos Limited ranks #1,264 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 Sophos Limited hold?

Sophos Limited holds 335 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Sophos Limited's Innovation Score?

Sophos Limited has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sophos Limited focus on?

Sophos Limited's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 270 patents, ranking #165 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sophos Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sophos Limited's recent grant velocity is +204% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sophos Limited's patents?

Sophos Limited's patents average 19.3 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 Sophos Limited 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

Sophos Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 335 granted patents across 6 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sophos ranks #1,264 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 335 patents across 6 technology areas.

#1,264
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +204%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1264 · Foreign Corporation #1,264 · 335 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 335 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,264/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cummins Emission…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +204% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. (±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 Sophos’s 47.6 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 20.1 pts (42%) Velocity 7.3 pts (15%) Breadth 8.7 pts (18%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tile · near

48
Hohai University · near

48
Pacific Light &… · near

48
Sophos · this assignee

48
Toshiba Carrier · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sophos's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Sophos?

Each dot is one of Sophos’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). Sophos’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sophos's grants concentrate

Sophos Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 80.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (57 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Sophos sits between SNU R&DB Foundation and Conduent Business Services, LLC.

Sophos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sophos Limited moved from 111 to 122 grants (1.10x 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 #962. See the growth leaderboard.

SNU R&DB Foundati…

337
Avery Dennison

336
King Slide Works

336
Cummins Emission…

335
Sophos ◀

335
K2M

334
Unimicron Technol…

334
Vertex Pharmaceut…

334
Conduent Business…

333

What this shows Sophos holds 335 patents at rank #1,264, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sophos

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,264 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sophos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Sophos ranks #165 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hohai University 48 Toshiba Carrier Corporation 48 Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc. 48 Tile, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Ambarella International LP 19.3 avg Adobe Inc. 19.3 avg The Travelers Indemnity Company 19.3 avg Interrad Medical, Inc. 19.3 avg

Sophos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Sophos Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	1.8%
2016	6	1.8%
2017	14	4.2%
2018	20	6.0%
2019	23	6.9%
2020	39	11.6%
2021	49	14.6%
2022	17	5.1%
2023	48	14.3%
2024	57	17.0%
2025partial year	56	16.7%

Which technologies does Sophos Limited patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 270

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 219

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 55

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 30

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 26

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 15

Top 6 of 6 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

Sophos Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sophos Limited's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 80.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,264 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sophos Limited against SNU R&DB Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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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