Where does SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation ranks #21,849 of 50,000 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 Medical Technology Research Corporation hold?

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's Innovation Score?

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation has an Innovation Score of 30.2 out of 100 (top 67% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's recent grant velocity is -37% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's patents?

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's patents average 10.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation

Q: What technology areas does SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation focus on?

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation's top technology area is A61M (DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the SUN Medical Technology Research 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 PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61M (DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SUN ranks #21,849 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#21,849
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 67%
by Innovation Score (30.2/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21849 · Foreign Corporation #21,849 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,849/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH STOWE WOODWARD LICEN…
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stowe Woodward Licensco 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
SUN Medical Technolo… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows SUN's Innovation Score is 30.2/100 (top 67% 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.

Where SUN's grants concentrate

SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 92.3% of grants classified under A61M (DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, SUN sits between Stowe Woodward Licensco Llc and Suzuki Manufacturing, Ltd..

Stowe Woodward Li…

13
Strength Master F…

13
STT Webos

13
SUN Drilling Prod…

13
Surewaves Mediate…

13
Surface Oncology

13
Suzhou HAN HUA Se…

13
Suzuki Manufactur…

13
SUN Medical Techn… ◀

13

What this shows SUN holds 13 patents at rank #21,772, 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 #21,772 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media INTO)

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

SUN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 67% higher than 33% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Medical Technology Research Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	3	23.1%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does SUN Medical Technology Research Corporation patent most?

A61M - DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR 12

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 2

H02G - INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES 1

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 1

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

H03K - PULSE TECHNIQUE 1

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 1

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,849

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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