Where does Sun Chemical Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sun Chemical Corporation ranks #1,903 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 Sun Chemical Corporation hold?

Sun Chemical Corporation holds 211 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Sun Chemical Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sun Chemical Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sun Chemical Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sun Chemical Corporation's recent grant velocity is +43% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Sun Chemical Corporation's patents?

Sun Chemical Corporation's patents average 20.0 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 Sun Chemical Corporation 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

Sun Chemical Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sun Chemical Corporation focus on?

Sun Chemical Corporation's top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 173 patents, ranking #15 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 211 granted patents across 82 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sun ranks #1,903 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 211 patents across 82 technology areas.

#1,903
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.2/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1903 · US Corporation #1,903 · 211 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 211 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,903/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Airbus Helicopters…
CPC-WIDE C09D · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (±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 Sun’s 62.2 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 18.5 pts (30%) Velocity 6.7 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Semiconductor… · near

62
Stoneridge AB · near

62
Sun Chemical · this assignee

62
Schneider Electric IT · near

62
Shanghai United… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sun's Innovation Score is 62.2/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Sun?

Each dot is one of Sun’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). Sun’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sun's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sun Chemical Corporation received 117 grants versus 82 in 2015–2019 (+43% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 14. Lead class C09D accounts for 82% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (#1,899) and Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH (#1,907).

Sun's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sun Chemical Corporation moved from 67 to 67 grants (1.00x 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 #1,168. See the growth leaderboard.

Airbus Helicopter…

211
GE Energy Power C…

211
Rosenberger Hochf…

211
Strong Force Iot…

211
Westinghouse Air…

211
Xyzprinting

211
Sun Chemical ◀

211
Atlassian US

210
Benteler Automobi…

210

What this shows Sun holds 211 patents at rank #1,903, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sun

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,903 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sun, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Sun ranks #15 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation 62 Stoneridge Electronics AB 62 Schneider Electric IT Corporation 62 Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Pindrop Security, Inc. 20.0 avg Visible World, LLC 20.0 avg Maquet GMBH 20.0 avg Tsmc China Company, Limited 20.0 avg

Sun's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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Sun Chemical Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	7.6%
2016	14	6.6%
2017	18	8.5%
2018	17	8.1%
2019	17	8.1%
2020	26	12.3%
2021	24	11.4%
2022	23	10.9%
2023	23	10.9%
2024	21	10.0%
2025partial year	12	5.7%

Which technologies does Sun Chemical Corporation patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 173

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 60

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 43

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 37

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 29

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 27

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 18

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 13

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 13

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 13

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 12

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 12

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

Top 15 of 82 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

Sun Chemical Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sun Chemical Corporation's lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 82% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #1,903 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sun Chemical Corporation against Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.2/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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