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Suntory Flowers Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 135 granted patents across 2 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suntory ranks #2,853 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 135 patents across 2 technology areas.

#2,853
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.5/100)
1.2
avg claims per patent
-64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2853 · Foreign Corporation #2,853 · 135 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MID 135 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #2,853/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH PetroChina
  • CPC-NARROW A01H · 2 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 28.5/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -64% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: PetroChina Company Limited (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Suntory

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Suntory's Innovation Score is 28.5/100 (27th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Suntory's grants concentrate

Suntory Flowers Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 1.5% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (24 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Suntory sits between PetroChina Company Limited and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc..

Suntory's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Suntory Flowers Limited moved from 24 to 21 grants (0.88x 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 #1,575. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Suntory's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Suntory holds 135 patents at rank #2,852, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Suntory

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,852 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Graphene-dx, Inc. 29 Melnor Inc. 29 Kabushiki Kaisha Aichi Corporation 28 Autifony Therapeutics Limited 28

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.2 here).

Shandong Linglong Tire Co., Ltd 1.2 avg J & D Brush Co., LLC 1.2 avg The Urban Electric Company 1.2 avg Wheel Group Holdings, LLC 1.1 avg

Suntory's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Suntory Flowers Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 21 15.6%
2016 24 17.8%
2017 24 17.8%
2018 11 8.1%
2019 12 8.9%
2020 6 4.4%
2021 6 4.4%
2022 10 7.4%
2023 4 3.0%
2024 7 5.2%
2025partial year 10 7.4%

Which technologies does Suntory Flowers Limited patent most?

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,853

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.5 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

Suntory Flowers Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Suntory Flowers Limited's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 1.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
  • Ranked #2,853 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Suntory Flowers Limited against PetroChina Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 28.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.