Where does Cochlear Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cochlear Limited ranks #586 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 Cochlear Limited hold?

Cochlear Limited holds 768 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Cochlear Limited's Innovation Score?

Cochlear Limited has an Innovation Score of 68.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cochlear Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cochlear Limited's recent grant velocity is -1% 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 Cochlear Limited's patents?

Cochlear Limited's patents average 23.5 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 Cochlear Limited 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

Cochlear Limited

Q: What technology areas does Cochlear Limited focus on?

Cochlear Limited's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 520 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 768 granted patents across 57 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, Cochlear ranks #586 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 768 patents across 57 technology areas.

#586
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.4/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent: -1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R586 · Foreign Corporation #586 · 768 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 768 grants
TOP-DECILE #586/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axis AB
CPC-WIDE H04R · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axis AB (±1 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rambus · near

68
Cochlear · this assignee

68
Ningbo Geely… · near

68
California Institute… · near

68
Express Scripts… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cochlear's Innovation Score is 68.4/100 (top 1% 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.

How Cochlear's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cochlear Limited received 357 grants versus 359 in 2015–2019 (-1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 86 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 55. Lead class H04R accounts for 67.7% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Axis AB (#582) and Pacesetter, Inc. (#590).

Cochlear's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cochlear Limited moved from 226 to 217 grants (0.96x 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 #1,295. See the growth leaderboard.

Axis AB

769
Globalfoundries S…

769
Janssen Pharmaceu…

769
Medtronic Minimed

769
Cochlear ◀

768
Mellanox

766
Mediatek Singapor…

761
Hanon Systems

758
Pacesetter

754

What this shows Cochlear holds 768 patents at rank #586, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cochlear

By rank, the assignees closest to #586 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cochlear, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. 68 Rambus Inc. 68 California Institute OF Technology 68 Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.5 here).

Terrapower, LLC 23.5 avg Graphic Packaging International, LLC 23.5 avg Matterport, Inc. 23.4 avg Exo Imaging, Inc. 23.4 avg

Cochlear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Cochlear Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	74	9.6%
2016	55	7.2%
2017	67	8.7%
2018	77	10.0%
2019	86	11.2%
2020	81	10.5%
2021	59	7.7%
2022	63	8.2%
2023	69	9.0%
2024	85	11.1%
2025partial year	52	6.8%

Which technologies does Cochlear Limited patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 520

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 449

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 100

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 78

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 35

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 28

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 26

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 22

H04B - Transmission 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

H03G - Control OF Amplification 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 10

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 7

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#586

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Cochlear Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cochlear Limited's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 67.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #586 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cochlear Limited against Axis AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.4/100 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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