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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Audible, Inc. ranks #4,453 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 Audible, Inc. hold?

Audible, Inc. holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Audible, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Audible, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Audible, Inc. focus on?

Audible, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 55 patents, ranking #899 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Audible, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Audible, Inc.'s patents?

Audible, Inc.'s patents average 23.9 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.

How is the Audible, 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

Audible, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Audible ranks #4,453 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 14 technology areas.

#4,453
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 23.9
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4453 · US Corporation #4,453 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,453/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aeris Communications
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aeris Communications, 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.

How Audible’s 45.3 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 15.1 pts (33%) Velocity 2.7 pts (6%) Breadth 13.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Audible · this assignee

45
Opsera · near

45
Shenzhen TargetRx · near

45
Tanium · near

45
Universite DE… · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Audible's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 23% 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 Audible?

Each dot is one of Audible’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). Audible’s own 23.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Audible's grants concentrate

Audible, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Audible sits between Aida Engineering, Ltd. and Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT.

Audible's three-year grant acceleration

Audible, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Aida Engineering

79
Alpha

79
Aeris Communicati…

79
Aptargroup

79
Biocatch

79
Bioventures

79
Checkpoint Systems

79
Csem Centre Suiss…

79
Audible ◀

79

What this shows Audible holds 79 patents at rank #4,453, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Audible

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,453 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Audible, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Audible ranks #899 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Tanium Inc. 45 Shenzhen TargetRx, Inc. 45 Universite DE Picardie Jules Verne 45 Opsera Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.9 here).

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. 23.9 avg MKS Instruments, Inc. 23.9 avg Global Graphene Group, Inc. 23.8 avg ExtraHop Networks, Inc. 23.9 avg

Audible's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Audible, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	29.1%
2016	22	27.8%
2017	21	26.6%
2018	6	7.6%
2019	2	2.5%
2021	3	3.8%
2022	2	2.5%

Which technologies does Audible, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 55

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 22

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

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

Top 14 of 14 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

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

Audible, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,453 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Audible, Inc. against Aida Engineering, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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.