Where does Suntory Flowers Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suntory Flowers Limited ranks #2,853 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 Suntory Flowers Limited hold?

Suntory Flowers Limited holds 135 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Suntory Flowers Limited's Innovation Score?

Suntory Flowers Limited has an Innovation Score of 28.5 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Suntory Flowers Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suntory Flowers Limited's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Suntory Flowers Limited's patents?

Suntory Flowers Limited's patents average 1.2 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 Suntory Flowers 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

Suntory Flowers Limited

Q: What technology areas does Suntory Flowers Limited focus on?

Suntory Flowers Limited's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 2 patents, ranking #173 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

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.

How Suntory’s 28.5 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 17.0 pts (60%) Velocity 5.8 pts (20%) Breadth 5.0 pts (18%) Claim depth 0.7 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Melnor · near

29
Graphene-dx · near

29
Suntory Flowers · this assignee

29
Aichi · near

28
Autifony Therapeutics · near

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Suntory?

Each dot is one of Suntory’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). Suntory’s own 1.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

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.

Petrochina

135
RH US

135
Sanechips Technol…

135
Spine Wave

135
Second Sight Medi…

135
Tamura

135
Toagosei

135
Warner Bros Enter…

135
Suntory Flowers ◀

135

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.

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). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Suntory ranks #173 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

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

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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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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?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

Top 2 of 2 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

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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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