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Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,378 granted patents across 251 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sumitomo ranks #78 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,378 patents across 251 technology areas.

#78
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.6/100)
9.0
avg claims per patent
+14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R78 · Foreign Corporation #78 · 4,378 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-LARGE 4.4K grants
  • TOP-DECILE #78/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Guangdong Oppo…
  • CPC-BROAD H01R · 251 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 64.6/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 9.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-UP +14% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. (±4 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 Sumitomo’s 64.6 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 Sumitomo

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

score

What this shows Sumitomo's Innovation Score is 64.6/100 (top 2% 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 Sumitomo?

Each dot is one of Sumitomo’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). Sumitomo’s own 9.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Sumitomo 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 4,0004,2004,4004,6004,8005,000 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. - 4862, 19.8Verizon Patent an…Olympus Corporation - 4844, 11.89OlympusSchlumberger Technology Corporation - 4606, 17.27Schlumberger Tech…GlobalFoundries Inc. - 4547, 16.06GlobalfoundriesGuangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. - 4374, 16.11Guangdong Oppo Mo…Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives - 4218, 14.89Commissariat A L'…ZTE Corporation - 4193, 14.84ZTEBasf SE - 4191, 16.12Basf SESumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. - 4378, 9Sumitomo Electric…
Sumitomo vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Sumitomo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. received 2,172 grants versus 1,902 in 2015–2019 (+14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 530 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 309. Lead class H01R accounts for 16.7% of the portfolio across 251 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (#74) and Basf SE (#82).

Sumitomo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. moved from 1,499 to 1,180 grants (0.79x 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 #1,883. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Sumitomo's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Sumitomo holds 4,378 patents at rank #78, 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 Sumitomo

By rank, the assignees closest to #78 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sumitomo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Sumitomo ranks #4 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 65 Nordic Semiconductor ASA 65 Anhui University 65 Indian Institute OF Technology Madras (IIT MADRAS) 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.0 here).

AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. 9.0 avg China Agricultural University 9.0 avg Zymogenetics Inc. 9.0 avg King Saud University 9.0 avg

Sumitomo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 348 7.9%
2016 356 8.1%
2017 352 8.0%
2018 339 7.7%
2019 507 11.6%
2020 530 12.1%
2021 462 10.6%
2022 386 8.8%
2023 309 7.1%
2024 485 11.1%
2025partial year 304 6.9%

Which technologies does Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 251 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

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
  • Ranked #78 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. against Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 64.6/100 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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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.