Where does Creative Technology Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Creative Technology Corporation ranks #2,769 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 Creative Technology Corporation hold?

Creative Technology Corporation holds 139 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Creative Technology Corporation's Innovation Score?

Creative Technology Corporation has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Creative Technology Corporation focus on?

Creative Technology Corporation's top technology area is H04S (Stereophonic Systems) with 41 patents, ranking #18 of 384 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Creative Technology Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Creative Technology Corporation's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Creative Technology Corporation's patents?

Creative Technology Corporation's patents average 11.5 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 Creative Technology 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

Creative Technology Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 139 granted patents across 63 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: H04S (Stereophonic Systems).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Creative ranks #2,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 139 patents across 63 technology areas.

#2,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2769 · Foreign Corporation #2,769 · 139 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 139 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bardy Diagnostics
CPC-WIDE H04S · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bardy Diagnostics, 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 Creative’s 54.0 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 17.1 pts (32%) Velocity 5.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A O Smith · near

54
Creative Technology · this assignee

54
DigiLens · near

54
Flex · near

54
Industry-academic… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Creative's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 Creative?

Each dot is one of Creative’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). Creative’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Creative's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Creative Technology Corporation received 43 grants versus 90 in 2015–2019 (-52% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 25 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 6. Lead class H04S accounts for 29.5% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. (#2,766) and Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG (#2,774).

Creative's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Creative Technology Corporation moved from 32 to 24 grants (0.75x 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 #1,981. See the growth leaderboard.

Bardy Diagnostics

139
Beijing Institute…

139
Cytiva Sweden AB

139
Continuous Compos…

139
Joby Aero

139
Japan Aerospace E…

139
Keihin

139
Kautex Textron &…

139
Creative Technolo… ◀

139

What this shows Creative holds 139 patents at rank #2,770, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Creative

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,770 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04S (Stereophonic Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Creative, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04S (Stereophonic Systems), Creative ranks #18 of 384 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

DigiLens Inc. 54 Flex Ltd. 54 A. O. Smith Corporation 54 Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation Gyeongsang National University 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

Festo AG & Co. KG 11.5 avg Safran Electronics & Defense 11.5 avg Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association 11.5 avg Shaanxi Lighte Optoelectronics Material Co., Ltd. 11.5 avg

Creative's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

View data table

Creative Technology Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	18.0%
2016	22	15.8%
2017	10	7.2%
2018	20	14.4%
2019	13	9.4%
2020	8	5.8%
2021	11	7.9%
2022	6	4.3%
2023	12	8.6%
2024	6	4.3%
2025partial year	6	4.3%

Which technologies does Creative Technology Corporation patent most?

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 41

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 41

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 33

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 15

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 5

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 3

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 3

Top 15 of 63 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Creative Technology Corporation's lead technology class is H04S (Stereophonic Systems), 29.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04S
Ranked #2,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Creative Technology Corporation against Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.