Where does Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. ranks #4,100 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 Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. hold?

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. focus on?

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 74 patents, ranking #229 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s patents?

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s patents average 22.6 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 Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 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

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 20 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sunovion ranks #4,100 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,100
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 22.6
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4100 · US Corporation #4,100 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,100/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH O2Micro
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: O2Micro 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.

How Sunovion’s 47.1 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 15.5 pts (33%) Velocity 2.3 pts (5%) Breadth 15.8 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
QuantumScape · near

47
Areva · near

47
KIP Prod P1 · near

47
Sunovion Pharmaceuti… · this assignee

47
Vizio · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sunovion's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 Sunovion?

Each dot is one of Sunovion’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). Sunovion’s own 22.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sunovion's grants concentrate

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 84.1% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Sunovion sits between O2Micro Inc. and Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC.

Sunovion's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. moved from 38 to 13 grants (0.34x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

O2micro

88
Purecircle Sdn Bhd

88
Qatar Foundation…

88
Ricoh Imaging

88
Tactotek OY

88
Toray Plastics (A…

88
WIN Semiconductors

88
Sunovion Pharmace… ◀

88
Basf Agricultural…

87

What this shows Sunovion holds 88 patents at rank #4,100, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sunovion

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,100 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sunovion, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Sunovion ranks #229 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Vizio, Inc. 47 Areva GMBH 47 KIP Prod P1 LP 47 QuantumScape Corporation 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.6 here).

Blue River Technology Inc. 22.6 avg Rogers Corporation 22.6 avg AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd. 22.6 avg Grail, Inc. 22.6 avg

Sunovion's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 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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Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	9.1%
2016	7	8.0%
2017	11	12.5%
2018	11	12.5%
2019	12	13.6%
2020	16	18.2%
2021	10	11.4%
2022	8	9.1%
2023	3	3.4%
2024	2	2.3%

Which technologies does Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 74

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 57

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 51

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 19

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

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

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

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 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 84.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #4,100 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. against O2Micro Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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