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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sybase, Inc. ranks #2,450 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 Sybase, Inc. hold?

Sybase, Inc. holds 160 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Sybase, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sybase, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.2 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sybase, Inc. focus on?

Sybase, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 144 patents, ranking #394 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sybase, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Sybase, Inc.'s patents?

Sybase, Inc.'s patents average 19.6 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 Sybase, 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

Sybase, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 160 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sybase ranks #2,450 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 160 patents across 11 technology areas.

#2,450
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.2/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2450 · US Corporation #2,450 · 160 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 160 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,450/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Geely…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. (±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 Sybase’s 42.2 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 17.6 pts (42%) Velocity 1.2 pts (3%) Breadth 11.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vetco Gray · near

42
Iseki & · near

42
Medtronic PS Medical · near

42
Seven Bridges Genomics · near

42
Sybase · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sybase's Innovation Score is 42.2/100 (top 31% 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 Sybase?

Each dot is one of Sybase’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). Sybase’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sybase's grants concentrate

Sybase, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (43 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Sybase sits between Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd. and AtriCure, Inc..

Sybase's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sybase, Inc. moved from 23 to 4 grants (0.17x 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 #3,126. See the growth leaderboard.

Ningbo Geely Auto…

160
Nuvoton Technolog…

160
Qomplx

160
Rolex

160
Trumpf Werkzeugma…

160
Valentino S p A

160
Veoneer US

160
Sybase ◀

160
Atricure

159

What this shows Sybase holds 160 patents at rank #2,450, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sybase

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,450 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sybase, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Sybase ranks #394 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Seven Bridges Genomics Inc. 42 Iseki & Co., Ltd. 42 Medtronic PS Medical, Inc. 42 Vetco Gray, LLC 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Inscripta Inc. 19.6 avg Alarm.com Incorporated 19.6 avg Enel X North America, Inc. 19.6 avg Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 19.6 avg

Sybase's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sybase, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	21.3%
2016	43	26.9%
2017	31	19.4%
2018	25	15.6%
2019	10	6.3%
2020	12	7.5%
2021	1	0.6%
2022	2	1.3%
2023	2	1.3%

Which technologies does Sybase, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 144

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Sybase, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sybase, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,450 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sybase, Inc. against Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.2/100 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

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.