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Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 1 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Southern ranks #21,813 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 1 technology areas.

#21,813
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100)
19.9
avg claims per patent
+100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21813 · Foreign Corporation #21,813 · 13 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
  • MID-PACK #21,813/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Softwave Tissue…
  • CPC-NARROW A61C · 1 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC (±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 Southern’s 44.6 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Southern

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Southern's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Southern?

Each dot is one of Southern’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). Southern’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Southern vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 12.912.91313.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC - 13, 14.15Softwave Tissue R…Solatube International, Inc. - 13, 20Solatube Internat…SomniQ, Inc. - 13, 18.23SomniqSonny's Enterprises, LLC - 13, 13.08Sonny's Enterpris…Southwest University of Science and Technology - 13, 11.62Southwest Univers…Sparkly Soul, Inc. - 13, 8.54Sparkly SoulSpec Seats Technologies Inc. - 13, 5.15Spec SeatsSpecialty Earth Sciences, LLC - 13, 15.15Specialty Earth S…Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd - 13, 19.85Southern Implants…
Southern vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Southern's grants concentrate

Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 84.6% of grants classified under A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Southern sits between Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC and Specialty Earth Sciences, LLC.

Southern's three-year grant acceleration

Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Who files at Southern's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Southern holds 13 patents at rank #21,836, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Southern

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,836 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

Southern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 2 15.4%
2017 1 7.7%
2019 1 7.7%
2020 1 7.7%
2022 4 30.8%
2023 1 7.7%
2024 2 15.4%
2025partial year 1 7.7%

Which technologies does Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd patent most?

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd's lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 84.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
  • Ranked #21,813 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Southern Implants (PTY) Ltd against Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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

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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

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.