Where does Sortera Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sortera Technologies, Inc. ranks #17,218 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 Sortera Technologies, Inc. hold?

Sortera Technologies, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sortera Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.2 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Sortera Technologies, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 21.4 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 Sortera Technologies, 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

Sortera Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sortera Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking) with 17 patents, ranking #11 of 282 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sortera ranks #17,218 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 7 technology areas.

#17,218
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.2/100): 21.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17218 · US Corporation #17,218 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,218/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Soft Machines
CPC-NARROW B07C · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Soft Machines 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 Sortera’s 52.2 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 10.0 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 9.4 pts (18%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sortera · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sortera's Innovation Score is 52.2/100 (top 10% 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 Sortera?

Each dot is one of Sortera’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). Sortera’s own 21.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sortera's grants concentrate

Sortera Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking). By volume, Sortera sits between Soft Machines Inc. and ST Pharm Co., Ltd..

Sortera's three-year grant acceleration

Sortera Technologies, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Soft Machines

17
Solar Junction

17
Solarlab Aiko Eur…

17
Solco Biomedical

17
Source

17
Spartus

17
Spatial Systems

17
ST Pharm

17
Sortera ◀

17

What this shows Sortera holds 17 patents at rank #17,182, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sortera

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,182 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B07C (Postal Sorting)

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

Sortera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sortera Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	8	47.1%
2025partial year	9	52.9%

Which technologies does Sortera Technologies, Inc. patent most?

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 17

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sortera Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is B07C (Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B07C
Ranked #17,218 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sortera Technologies, Inc. against Soft Machines Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.2/100 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

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