Where does SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited ranks #3,027 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 Pharmaceutical Industries Limited hold?

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's Innovation Score?

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's patents?

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's patents average 13.9 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 Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

Q: What technology areas does SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited focus on?

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 99 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 23 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SUN ranks #3,027 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 23 technology areas.

#3,027
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3027 · Foreign Corporation #3,027 · 126 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,027/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanotronics Imaging
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanotronics Imaging, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Razor USA · near

49
SUN Pharmaceutical… · this assignee

49
Allosource · near

49
Express Imaging… · near

49
Gula Consulting… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SUN's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 78.6% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, SUN sits between Nanotronics Imaging, Inc. and Wiz, Inc..

SUN's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited moved from 33 to 35 grants (1.06x 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 #1,037. See the growth leaderboard.

Nanotronics Imagi…

126
Piolax

126
Pinterest

126
S&C Electric

126
Sogang University…

126
THE Hillman Group

126
Tactual Labs

126
Wiz

126
SUN Pharmaceutica… ◀

126

What this shows SUN holds 126 patents at rank #3,025, 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 #3,025 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Razor USA LLC 49 Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company 49 Allosource 49 Express Imaging Systems, LLC 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

PlayNitride Inc. 13.9 avg MakerBot Industries, LLC 13.9 avg Ossur Iceland EHF 13.9 avg Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg 13.9 avg

SUN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 Pharmaceutical Industries Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.8%
2016	9	7.1%
2017	21	16.7%
2018	18	14.3%
2019	15	11.9%
2020	5	4.0%
2021	13	10.3%
2022	14	11.1%
2023	4	3.2%
2024	17	13.5%
2025partial year	9	7.1%

Which technologies does SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 99

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 55

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 25

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 21

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 18

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 9

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

C07K - Peptides 6

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 5

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,027

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.1 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

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 78.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,027 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited against Nanotronics Imaging, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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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