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Sony Group Corporation (SONY)

NYSE: SONY · Household Audio & Video Equipment · Tokyo · filing with the SEC since 1996
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

62,624 patents granted to the 6 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Sony Group Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
62,624
58,607 utility, 3,748 design, 267 reissue, 2 statutory invention registration, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1,226
Against 1,473 in 2024 and 1,257 in 2023
Applications published
44,418
1,099 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
6
its own name, a former name, its holding company
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Digital communication2,059
Audio-visual technology1,520
Computer technology1,352
Semiconductors515
Optics339
Measurement283
Telecommunications279
Medical technology231
Control145
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy128
Furniture, games85
Transport71
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
SONY GROUP CORPORATION its own name
JP, as the owner printed on each patent. 178 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in SS, printed in SE)
62,621 granted
33,303 published
SONY CORPORATION a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP. 4 more under the same name are not counted (printed in KR, printed in CN, printed in US)
0 granted
7,882 published
Sony Group Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP. 7 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in DE)
0 granted
3,169 published
SONY CORPORATION, A JAPANESE CORPORATION a former name
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
63 published
Sony Corporation, a corporation of Japan a former name
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
Sony IP Corporation its holding company
JP, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name SONY CORP
1 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,514,020Solid-state imaging device having through electrode provided therein and electronic apparatus incorporating the solid-state imaging deviceSemiconductorsSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,513,958Nanowire transistor fabrication with hardmask layersSemiconductorsSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,513,721Communications device and methodsDigital communicationSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,513,430Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, and electronic device for simultaneously reading signal levels of different capacitive elementsAudio-visual technologySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,513,420Adjustment device and operation method of adjustment deviceComputer technologySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,513,417Image processing device, imaging device, and image processing methodAudio-visual technologySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,512,525Control apparatus and control methodElectrical machinery, apparatus, energySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,512,521Feed unit, feed system, and electronic device for increasing power supplied to a battery based on a device state and/or a control of a charging currentElectrical machinery, apparatus, energySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,512,053Display device, method of manufacturing display device, and electronic apparatus including groove formed between pixelsSemiconductorsSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 30, 202512,511,834Visualization of AI-generated predictions from 3D dataComputer technologySONY GROUP CORPORATION
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0393068TERMINALS, BASE STATIONS, SYSTEMS, METHODS, CIRCUITRY AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTSDigital communicationSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 25, 20252025/0392975TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHODDigital communicationSony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392590CODE-BASED TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATIONDigital communicationSony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392424METHODS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENTDigital communicationSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 25, 20252025/0391401MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMComputer technologySony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0391139VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMComputer technologySony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0390847INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMComputer technologySony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0390211TACTILE SENSATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND TACTILE SENSATION PRESENTATION SYSTEMComputer technologySony Group Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0390109MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE DEVICEControlSONY GROUP CORPORATION
Dec 25, 20252025/0390094INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND MOBILE BODY CONTROL SYSTEMMeasurementSONY GROUP CORPORATION
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 694 · Computer technology 505 · Audio-visual technology 453 · Measurement 153 · Optics 140 · Medical technology 124.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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