Where does Dolby Laboratories Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dolby Laboratories Inc. ranks #24,211 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 Laboratories Inc. hold?

Dolby Laboratories Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Dolby Laboratories Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.3 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Dolby Laboratories Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s patents?

Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Laboratories Inc. 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

Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Dolby Laboratories Inc. focus on?

Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 9 patents, ranking #573 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dolby ranks #24,211 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 10 technology areas.

#24,211
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.3/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24211 · US Corporation #24,211 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,211/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Digital Concepts of…
CPC-FOCUS H02J · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Digital Concepts of Missouri, 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 Dolby’s 32.3 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 8.6 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (39%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Stat Medical Devices · near

32
Dolby Laboratories · this assignee

32
Lelo · near

32
Neocific · near

32
Symetis · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dolby's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (41st percentile 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 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dolby's grants concentrate

Dolby Laboratories Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy). By volume, Dolby sits between Digital Concepts of Missouri, Inc. and DoubleMe, Inc..

Digital Concepts…

11
Digital Fountain

11
Disruptive Resear…

11
Divert

11
Dolphin N2

11
Domaille Engineer…

11
Dongguan Mimao Te…

11
Doubleme

11
Dolby Laboratories ◀

11

What this shows Dolby holds 11 patents at rank #24,216, 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 #24,216 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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 H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Dolby ranks #573 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Symetis SA 32 Neocific, Inc. 32 Lelo Inc. 32 Stat Medical Devices, Inc. 32

Dolby's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Dolby Laboratories Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	9.1%
2025partial year	10	90.9%

Which technologies does Dolby Laboratories Inc. patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

H04B - Transmission 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

Top 10 of 10 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 Laboratories Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dolby Laboratories Inc.'s lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #24,211 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dolby Laboratories Inc. against Digital Concepts of Missouri, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.3/100 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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