Where does Southern University of Science and Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Southern University of Science and Technology ranks #6,190 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 Southern University of Science and Technology hold?

Southern University of Science and Technology holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Southern University of Science and Technology's Innovation Score?

Southern University of Science and Technology has an Innovation Score of 55.0 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Southern University of Science and Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Southern University of Science and Technology's recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Southern University of Science and Technology's patents?

Southern University of Science and Technology's patents average 10.6 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

Southern University of Science and Technology

Q: What technology areas does Southern University of Science and Technology focus on?

Southern University of Science and Technology's top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 7 patents, ranking #687 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Southern University of Science and Technology 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 - 55 granted patents across 80 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Southern ranks #6,190 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 80 technology areas.

#6,190
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.0/100): 10.6
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6190 · Foreign Corporation #6,190 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,190/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SDI
CPC-WIDE H02J · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SDI Technologies, 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 Southern’s 55.0 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 13.9 pts (25%) Velocity 9.8 pts (18%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (11%)

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Southern University… · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Southern's Innovation Score is 55.0/100 (top 7% 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 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 10.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Southern's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Southern University of Science and Technology received 39 grants versus 9 in 2015–2019 (+333% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 13 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 2. Lead class H02J accounts for 12.7% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SDI Technologies, Inc. (#6,185) and The Jackson Laboratory (#6,193).

Southern's three-year grant acceleration

Southern University of Science and Technology shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

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55
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55
Sigmastar Technol…

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Sonitor AS

55
Stamford Devices

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Thales Canada

55
The 41st Parameter

55
The Jackson Labor…

55
Southern Universi… ◀

55

What this shows Southern holds 55 patents at rank #6,189, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Southern

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,189 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Southern, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Southern ranks #687 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

San Diego State University Research Foundation 55 Clark Equipment Company 55 Hartford Fire Insurance Company 55 JetZero, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.6 here).

Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University 10.6 avg University of Louisiana at Lafayette 10.6 avg Fivetech Technology Inc. 10.5 avg Bender GmbH & Co. KG 10.5 avg

Southern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Southern University of Science and Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	7.3%
2018	2	3.6%
2019	3	5.5%
2020	6	10.9%
2021	8	14.5%
2022	7	12.7%
2023	13	23.6%
2024	5	9.1%
2025partial year	7	12.7%

Which technologies does Southern University of Science and Technology patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 4

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 4

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H04B - Transmission 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 2

Top 15 of 80 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

Southern University of Science and Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Southern University of Science and Technology's lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 12.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #6,190 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Southern University of Science and Technology against SDI Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.0/100 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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