Where does Cerence Operating Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cerence Operating Company ranks #5,826 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 Cerence Operating Company hold?

Cerence Operating Company holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Cerence Operating Company's Innovation Score?

Cerence Operating Company has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cerence Operating Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cerence Operating Company's recent grant velocity is +2250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cerence Operating Company's patents?

Cerence Operating Company's patents average 19.0 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 Cerence Operating Company 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

Cerence Operating Company

Q: What technology areas does Cerence Operating Company focus on?

Cerence Operating Company's top technology area is G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding) with 44 patents, ranking #85 of 1,620 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cerence ranks #5,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 35 technology areas.

#5,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +2250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5826 · US Corporation #5,826 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Andis
CPC-FOCUS G10L · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +2250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Andis Company (±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 Cerence’s 57.9 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 14.1 pts (24%) Velocity 11.5 pts (20%) Breadth 20.9 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
UNIVERSITÉ Libre DE… · near

58
Cerence Operating · this assignee

58
IPG Photonics · near

58
Shenzhen Carku… · near

58
Technische Universit… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cerence's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 Cerence?

Each dot is one of Cerence’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). Cerence’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cerence's grants concentrate

Cerence Operating Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 75.9% of grants classified under G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Cerence sits between Andis Company and Compagnie Gervais Danone.

Cerence's three-year grant acceleration

Cerence Operating Company shows 31 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Andis

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58
Compagnie Gervais…

58
Cerence Operating ◀

58

What this shows Cerence holds 58 patents at rank #5,824, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cerence

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,824 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cerence, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis), Cerence ranks #85 of 1,620 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Shenzhen Carku Technology Co., Limited 58 UNIVERSITÉ Libre DE Bruxelles 58 Technische Universität Wien 58 IPG Photonics Corporation 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

National Products, Inc. 19.0 avg Crispr Therapeutics AG 19.0 avg Corindus, Inc. 19.0 avg LAT Enterprises, Inc. 19.0 avg

Cerence's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Cerence Operating Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	3.4%
2020	5	8.6%
2021	11	19.0%
2022	8	13.8%
2023	9	15.5%
2024	14	24.1%
2025partial year	9	15.5%

Which technologies does Cerence Operating Company patent most?

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 26

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 10

H04M - Telephonic Communication 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 5

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 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 3

Top 15 of 35 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

Cerence Operating Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cerence Operating Company's lead technology class is G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding), 75.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10L
Ranked #5,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cerence Operating Company against Andis Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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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