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Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sumitomo ranks #12,688 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 26 technology areas.

#12,688
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.0/100)
12.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12688 · Foreign Corporation #12,688 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
  • MID-PACK #12,688/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Spire Global
  • CPC-FOCUS B66C · 26 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 45.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Spire Global, 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.

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 45.0/100 (top 24% 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

Where Sumitomo's grants concentrate

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Sumitomo sits between Spire Global, Inc. and System Ceramics S.P.A..

Sumitomo's three-year grant acceleration

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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 Sumitomo's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Sumitomo holds 24 patents at rank #12,672, 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 #12,672 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66C (Cranes)

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

Sumitomo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 5 20.8%
2021 4 16.7%
2022 1 4.2%
2023 4 16.7%
2024 6 25.0%
2025partial year 4 16.7%

Which technologies does Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#12,688

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B66C (CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66C
  • Ranked #12,688 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes Co., Ltd. against Spire Global, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 45.0/100 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

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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.