Where does Audience Partners LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Audience Partners LLC ranks #14,473 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 Audience Partners LLC hold?

Audience Partners LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Audience Partners LLC's Innovation Score?

Audience Partners LLC has an Innovation Score of 36.9 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Audience Partners LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Audience Partners LLC's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Audience Partners LLC's patents?

Audience Partners LLC's patents average 20.4 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 Audience Partners LLC 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

Audience Partners LLC

Q: What technology areas does Audience Partners LLC focus on?

Audience Partners LLC's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 8 patents, ranking #310 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Audience ranks #14,473 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 16 technology areas.

#14,473
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14473 · US Corporation #14,473 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,473/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aquasmart Enterprises
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aquasmart Enterprises, LLC (±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 Audience’s 36.9 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 10.5 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Audience Partners · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Audience's Innovation Score is 36.9/100 (top 45% 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 Audience?

Each dot is one of Audience’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). Audience’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Audience's grants concentrate

Audience Partners LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Audience sits between Aquasmart Enterprises, LLC and B-O-F Corporation.

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Audience Partners ◀

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What this shows Audience holds 20 patents at rank #14,475, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Audience

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,475 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Audience's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Audience Partners LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	80.0%
2016	3	15.0%
2020	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Audience Partners LLC patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

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 2

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 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Audience Partners LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Audience Partners LLC's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #14,473 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Audience Partners LLC against Aquasmart Enterprises, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.9/100 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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