Where does Dolby International AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dolby International AB ranks #495 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 Dolby International AB hold?

Dolby International AB holds 903 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Dolby International AB's Innovation Score?

Dolby International AB has an Innovation Score of 58.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dolby International AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dolby International AB's recent grant velocity is -5% 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 Dolby International AB's patents?

Dolby International AB's patents average 11.9 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 Dolby International AB 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

Dolby International AB

Q: What technology areas does Dolby International AB focus on?

Dolby International AB'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 641 patents, ranking #8 of 1,620 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 903 granted patents across 36 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: 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, Dolby ranks #495 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 903 patents across 36 technology areas.

#495
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R495 · Foreign Corporation #495 · 903 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 903 grants
TOP-DECILE #495/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Koito Manufacturing
CPC-FOCUS G10L · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (±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.

How Dolby’s 58.6 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 23.5 pts (40%) Velocity 6.7 pts (11%) Breadth 21.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Saab AB · near

59
Stora Enso OYJ · near

59
Dolby International AB · this assignee

59
IngenioSpec · near

59
L&P Property… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dolby's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (top 4% 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 Dolby?

Each dot is one of Dolby’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). Dolby’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Dolby's grants concentrate

Dolby International AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 71% 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 2017 (123 grants) versus a trough of 30 in 2015. By volume, Dolby sits between Dyson Technology Limited and Globalfoundries U.S. Inc..

Dolby's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dolby International AB moved from 252 to 253 grants (1.00x 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 #1,163. See the growth leaderboard.

Dyson Technology

908
Mcafee

906
Brunswick

905
Idemitsu Kosan

905
Dolby Internation… ◀

903
Koito Manufacturi…

902
BAE Systems Infor…

900
Omnivision

897
Globalfoundries U…

896

What this shows Dolby holds 903 patents at rank #495, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dolby

By rank, the assignees closest to #495 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dolby, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis), Dolby ranks #8 of 1,620 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

L&P Property Management Company 59 IngenioSpec, LLC 59 Stora Enso OYJ 59 Saab AB 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

Olympus Corporation 11.9 avg Imflux Inc. 11.9 avg Karl Storz SE & Co. KG 11.9 avg SK On Co., Ltd. 11.9 avg

Dolby's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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

Dolby International AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	3.3%
2016	62	6.9%
2017	123	13.6%
2018	100	11.1%
2019	105	11.6%
2020	85	9.4%
2021	62	6.9%
2022	67	7.4%
2023	89	9.9%
2024	97	10.7%
2025partial year	83	9.2%

Which technologies does Dolby International AB patent most?

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 641

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 358

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 174

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 112

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 110

H03G - Control OF Amplification 68

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 33

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 33

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 23

H04H - Broadcast Communication 15

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 13

H04B - Transmission 13

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 10

Top 15 of 36 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

Dolby International AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dolby International AB'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), 71% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10L
Ranked #495 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dolby International AB against Dyson Technology Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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

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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

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