Where does Bitwave PTE Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bitwave PTE Ltd ranks #9,450 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 Bitwave PTE Ltd hold?

Bitwave PTE Ltd holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Bitwave PTE Ltd's Innovation Score?

Bitwave PTE Ltd has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bitwave PTE Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bitwave PTE Ltd's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Bitwave PTE Ltd's patents?

Bitwave PTE Ltd's patents average 19.9 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 Bitwave PTE 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Bitwave PTE Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Bitwave PTE Ltd focus on?

Bitwave PTE Ltd's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 21 patents, ranking #131 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 18 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, Bitwave ranks #9,450 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 18 technology areas.

#9,450
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9450 · Foreign Corporation #9,450 · 33 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,450/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BAE Systems Imaging…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BAE Systems Imaging Solutions 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 Bitwave’s 42.5 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 12.2 pts (29%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 15.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Occlutech · near

42
Actuant · near

42
Bitwave PTE · this assignee

42
Centre Leon Berard · near

42
Crocs · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bitwave's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Bitwave?

Each dot is one of Bitwave’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). Bitwave’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bitwave's grants concentrate

Bitwave PTE Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 63.6% 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 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bitwave sits between BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc. and Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co..

Bitwave's three-year grant acceleration

Bitwave PTE Ltd shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

BAE Systems Imagi…

33
Beihai HKC Optoel…

33
Beijing Apollo Di…

33
Beijing Smtp Tech…

33
BJB & KG

33
Blue Rhino Global…

33
Btsr Internationa…

33
Beam Engineering…

33
Bitwave PTE ◀

33

What this shows Bitwave holds 33 patents at rank #9,446, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bitwave

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,446 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bitwave, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Bitwave ranks #131 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Actuant Corporation 42 Centre Leon Berard 42 Crocs, Inc. 42 Occlutech GmbH 42

Bitwave's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Bitwave PTE Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.0%
2016	1	3.0%
2017	6	18.2%
2018	3	9.1%
2019	7	21.2%
2020	4	12.1%
2021	3	9.1%
2022	3	9.1%
2023	2	6.1%
2024	2	6.1%
2025partial year	1	3.0%

Which technologies does Bitwave PTE Ltd patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 21

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 13

H03G - Control OF Amplification 9

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 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04B - Transmission 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Top 15 of 18 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

Bitwave PTE Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bitwave PTE Ltd's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #9,450 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bitwave PTE Ltd against BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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