Where does AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. ranks #1,606 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 AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. hold?

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. holds 257 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +51% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. focus on?

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 159 patents. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 257 granted patents across 50 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AAC ranks #1,606 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 257 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,606
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: +51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1606 · Foreign Corporation #1,606 · 257 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 257 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,606/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flir Systems
CPC-WIDE H04R · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flir Systems, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Taipei Medical… · near

55
AAC Acoustic… · this assignee

55
X-Celeprint · near

55
Senju Metal Industry · near

55
Tobii AB · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AAC's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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.

How AAC's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. received 131 grants versus 87 in 2015–2019 (+51% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 4. Lead class H04R accounts for 61.9% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GE Healthcare Bio-Science AB (#1,602) and Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (#1,610).

AAC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. moved from 72 to 63 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 #1,580. See the growth leaderboard.

GE Healthcare Bio…

258
H Lundbeck A/S

258
Kantatsu

258
Turner Broadcasti…

258
Flir Systems

257
Horiba

257
SMS group

257
AAC Acoustic (She… ◀

257
Asahi Kasei Micro…

256

What this shows AAC holds 257 patents at rank #1,606, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AAC

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,606 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

X-Celeprint Limited 55 Tobii AB 55 Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. 55 Taipei Medical University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

PureCircle Sdn Bhd 8.9 avg Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. 8.9 avg Optim Corporation 8.9 avg PAX Labs, Inc. 8.9 avg

AAC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	8.9%
2016	23	8.9%
2017	22	8.6%
2018	15	5.8%
2019	4	1.6%
2020	25	9.7%
2021	43	16.7%
2022	16	6.2%
2023	19	7.4%
2024	28	10.9%
2025partial year	39	15.2%

Which technologies does AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 159

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 48

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 42

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 21

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 6

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 6

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 6

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H03F - Amplifiers 4

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 4

Top 15 of 50 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,606

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.4 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

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 61.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,606 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. against GE Healthcare Bio-Science AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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

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