Where does Bose Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bose Corporation ranks #278 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 Bose Corporation hold?

Bose Corporation holds 1,553 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 144 technology areas.

What is Bose Corporation's Innovation Score?

Bose Corporation has an Innovation Score of 64.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bose Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bose Corporation's recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Bose Corporation's patents?

Bose Corporation's patents average 16.5 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 Bose 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 US Corporation

Bose Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Bose Corporation focus on?

Bose Corporation's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 1,026 patents, ranking #3 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 144 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,553 granted patents across 144 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, Bose ranks #278 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,553 patents across 144 technology areas.

#278
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R278 · US Corporation #278 · 1,553 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #278/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Motorola Solutions
CPC-WIDE H04R · 144 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Motorola Solutions, Inc. (±2 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 Bose’s 64.5 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 25.4 pts (39%) Velocity 4.3 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
San Diego State… · near

65
Trinamix · near

65
Bose · this assignee

65
General Atomics… · near

65
The Brigham and… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bose's Innovation Score is 64.5/100 (top 2% 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 Bose?

Each dot is one of Bose’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). Bose’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Bose's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bose Corporation received 722 grants versus 752 in 2015–2019 (-4% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 205 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 103. Lead class H04R accounts for 66.1% of the portfolio across 144 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Acushnet Company (#274) and Aktiebolaget SKF (#282).

Bose's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bose Corporation moved from 553 to 353 grants (0.64x 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 #2,338. See the growth leaderboard.

Acushnet

1,567
Colgate-palmolive

1,565
Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose ◀

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543
Palantir

1,534
The General Hospi…

1,529
Aktiebolaget SKF

1,526

What this shows Bose holds 1,553 patents at rank #278, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bose

By rank, the assignees closest to #278 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bose, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Bose ranks #3 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. 65 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. 65 Trinamix GMBH 65 San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

National University OF Singapore 16.5 avg Spinal Elements, Inc. 16.5 avg University OF Wyoming 16.5 avg Inno-Sports Co., Ltd. 16.5 avg

Bose's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Bose Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	127	8.2%
2016	106	6.8%
2017	164	10.6%
2018	171	11.0%
2019	184	11.8%
2020	205	13.2%
2021	164	10.6%
2022	146	9.4%
2023	104	6.7%
2024	103	6.6%
2025partial year	79	5.1%

Which technologies does Bose Corporation patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1,026

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 267

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 233

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 183

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 148

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 83

H03G - Control OF Amplification 74

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 69

H04M - Telephonic Communication 59

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 54

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 54

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 50

H04B - Transmission 45

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

H03F - Amplifiers 28

Top 15 of 144 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

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

Bose Corporation's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 66.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #278 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bose Corporation against Acushnet Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.5/100 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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