Where does Audio-Technica Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Audio-Technica Corporation ranks #1,196 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 Audio-Technica Corporation hold?

Audio-Technica Corporation holds 354 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Audio-Technica Corporation's Innovation Score?

Audio-Technica Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.3 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Audio-Technica Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Audio-Technica Corporation's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Audio-Technica Corporation's patents?

Audio-Technica Corporation's patents average 5.8 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 Audio-Technica Corporation 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 Foreign Corporation

Audio-Technica Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Audio-Technica Corporation focus on?

Audio-Technica Corporation's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 185 patents, ranking #26 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 354 granted patents across 38 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, Audio-technica ranks #1,196 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 354 patents across 38 technology areas.

#1,196
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1196 · Foreign Corporation #1,196 · 354 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 354 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,196/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology AG (±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 Audio-technica’s 53.3 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 20.3 pts (38%) Velocity 7.7 pts (14%) Breadth 21.8 pts (41%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fluor · near

53
GEA Food Solutions… · near

53
Audio-Technica · this assignee

53
International Machines · near

53
Novares France · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Audio-technica's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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 Audio-technica?

Each dot is one of Audio-technica’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). Audio-technica’s own 5.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Audio-technica's grants concentrate

Audio-Technica Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 52.3% 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 2017 (50 grants) versus a trough of 22 in 2019. By volume, Audio-technica sits between Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. and AIR Products AND Chemicals, Inc..

Audio-technica's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Audio-Technica Corporation moved from 81 to 94 grants (1.16x 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 #852. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Lenovo So…

356
Shiseido

356
Volvo Constructio…

355
ABB Technology

354
Doosan Heavy Indu…

354
Headway

354
Hunter Douglas

354
Audio-technica ◀

354
AIR Products AND…

353

What this shows Audio-Technica holds 354 patents at rank #1,196, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Audio-Technica

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,196 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Audio-Technica's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Audio-Technica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Audio-Technica ranks #26 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

International Electronic Machines Corp. 53 Novares France 53 Fluor Technologies Corporation 53 GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.8 here).

Hi-lex Corporation 5.8 avg Acme United Corporation 5.8 avg Sami Labs Limited 5.7 avg Puma SE 5.8 avg

Audio-technica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Audio-Technica Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	7.1%
2016	38	10.7%
2017	50	14.1%
2018	44	12.4%
2019	22	6.2%
2020	32	9.0%
2021	27	7.6%
2022	27	7.6%
2023	24	6.8%
2024	43	12.1%
2025partial year	22	6.2%

Which technologies does Audio-Technica Corporation patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 185

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 9

H03F - Amplifiers 8

H04B - Transmission 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

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

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

Top 15 of 38 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

Audio-Technica Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Audio-Technica Corporation's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 52.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,196 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Audio-Technica Corporation against Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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

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