Where does Sunlight Aerospace Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sunlight Aerospace Inc. ranks #23,479 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 Sunlight Aerospace Inc. hold?

Sunlight Aerospace Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sunlight Aerospace Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s patents?

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s patents average 25.8 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 Sunlight Aerospace 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

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sunlight Aerospace Inc. focus on?

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 4 patents, ranking #2,537 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sunlight ranks #23,479 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 29 technology areas.

#23,479
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 25.8
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23479 · US Corporation #23,479 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,479/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Storz Endoskop…
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Storz Endoskop Produktions 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 Sunlight’s 45.4 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 8.9 pts (20%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 19.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sunlight Aerospace · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sunlight's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Sunlight?

Each dot is one of Sunlight’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). Sunlight’s own 25.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sunlight's grants concentrate

Sunlight Aerospace Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Sunlight sits between Storz Endoskop Produktions GMBH and Suzhou Microport Orthobot Co., Ltd..

Sunlight's three-year grant acceleration

Sunlight Aerospace Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Storz Endoskop Pr…

12
Strait Access Hol…

12
Strattec Power Ac…

12
Sturm Maschinen-…

12
Surf Technology AS

12
Surgical Innovati…

12
Suzhou Cleva Elec…

12
Suzhou Microport…

12
Sunlight Aerospace ◀

12

What this shows Sunlight holds 12 patents at rank #23,401, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sunlight

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,401 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Sunlight's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sunlight Aerospace Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	16.7%
2020	4	33.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2024	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Sunlight Aerospace Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

H04B - Transmission 4

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 2

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sunlight Aerospace Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #23,479 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sunlight Aerospace Inc. against Storz Endoskop Produktions GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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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