Where does Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation ranks #186 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 Licensing Corporation hold?

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation holds 2,118 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's Innovation Score?

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation has an Innovation Score of 64.9 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%).

What technology areas does Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation focus on?

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 862 patents, ranking #35 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Laboratories Licensing Corporation's patents?

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's patents average 14.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

Q: How is the Dolby Laboratories Licensing 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 PatentsView assignee record - 2,118 granted patents across 82 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dolby ranks #186 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,118 patents across 82 technology areas.

#186
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R186 · US Corporation #186 · 2,118 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #186/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intuitive Surgical…
CPC-WIDE H04N · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. (±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 64.9 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 26.5 pts (41%) Velocity 4.9 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dolby Laboratories… · this assignee

65
Mako Surgical · near

65
Regents of the… · near

65
Salesforce com · near

65
STMicroelectronics… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dolby's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (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.

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 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 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.

How Dolby's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation received 893 grants versus 1,069 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 274 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 126. Lead class H04N accounts for 40.7% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rolls-royce plc (#182) and Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation (#190).

Dolby's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation moved from 672 to 495 grants (0.74x 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 #2,026. See the growth leaderboard.

Rolls-royce

2,152
Nokia Solutions A…

2,149
Alcatel Lucent

2,140
Shimadzu

2,128
Dolby Laboratorie… ◀

2,118
Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo

2,112
Interdigital Pate…

2,111
Milwaukee Electri…

2,095

What this shows Dolby holds 2,118 patents at rank #186, 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 #186 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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 H04N (Pictorial Communication), Dolby ranks #35 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Salesforce.com, Inc. 65 Regents of the University of Minnesota 65 Mako Surgical Corp. 65 STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Gentex Corporation 14.2 avg Pall Corporation 14.2 avg Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum 14.2 avg SureFire, LLC 14.2 avg

Dolby's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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.

View data table

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	126	5.9%
2016	192	9.1%
2017	248	11.7%
2018	229	10.8%
2019	274	12.9%
2020	226	10.7%
2021	172	8.1%
2022	166	7.8%
2023	139	6.6%
2024	190	9.0%
2025partial year	156	7.4%

Which technologies does Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 862

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 680

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 622

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 402

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 250

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 225

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 215

H03G - Control OF Amplification 169

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 121

H04M - Telephonic Communication 110

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 94

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 91

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 52

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 43

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 39

Top 15 of 82 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 Licensing Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #186 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation against Rolls-royce plc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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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