Where does Sunfolding, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sunfolding, Inc. ranks #20,473 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 Sunfolding, Inc. hold?

Sunfolding, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Sunfolding, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sunfolding, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.9 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sunfolding, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sunfolding, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +267% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sunfolding, Inc.'s patents?

Sunfolding, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Sunfolding, Inc. 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

Sunfolding, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sunfolding, Inc. focus on?

Sunfolding, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION) with 14 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: Y02E (REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sunfolding ranks #20,473 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#20,473
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.9/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +267%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20473 · US Corporation #20,473 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,473/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH SafeAI
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +267% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safeai, 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
Blee · near

40
Denso · near

40
Gumgum · near

40
Sunfolding · this assignee

40
Varel International… · near

40
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Sunfolding's Innovation Score is 39.9/100 (top 37% 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 Sunfolding's grants concentrate

Sunfolding, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under Y02E (REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Sunfolding sits between Stemnion, Inc. and Safeai, Inc..

Stemnion

14
Steris Instrument…

14
Stimscience

14
Strix

14
Surys

14
Symbolics

14
System S P A

14
Safeai

14
Sunfolding ◀

14

What this shows Sunfolding holds 14 patents at rank #20,407, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sunfolding

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,407 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sunfolding, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Gumgum, Inc. 40 Denso Electronics Corporation 40 Blee. Llc 40 Varel International IND., L.l.c. 40

Sunfolding's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sunfolding, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.1%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	4	28.6%
2022	2	14.3%
2023	4	28.6%

Which technologies does Sunfolding, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 14

H02S - GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES 14

F24S - SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS 11

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 8

F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 7

F03G - SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 5

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 5

F16J - PISTONS ; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS 5

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 3

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 3

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 3

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,473

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.9 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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