Where does DTS, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DTS, Inc. ranks #2,721 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 DTS, Inc. hold?

DTS, Inc. holds 142 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is DTS, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

DTS, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.8 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does DTS, Inc. focus on?

DTS, Inc.'s top technology area is H04S (Stereophonic Systems) with 84 patents, ranking #11 of 384 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is DTS, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DTS, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 DTS, Inc.'s patents?

DTS, Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 DTS, 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

DTS, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 142 granted patents across 24 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DTS ranks #2,721 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 142 patents across 24 technology areas.

#2,721
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.8/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2721 · US Corporation #2,721 · 142 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 142 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,721/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cohere
CPC-FOCUS H04S · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cohere Technologies, 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 DTS’s 47.8 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 (36%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 17.3 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Americas · near

48
DTS · this assignee

48
Hongik University… · near

48
Ningbo Tuotuo River… · near

48
Pluto · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows DTS's Innovation Score is 47.8/100 (top 18% 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 DTS?

Each dot is one of DTS’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). DTS’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where DTS's grants concentrate

DTS, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 59.2% of grants classified under H04S (Stereophonic Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (28 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, DTS sits between Tele Tracking Technologies, Inc. and IEE International Electronics & Engineering S.A..

DTS's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DTS, Inc. moved from 59 to 17 grants (0.29x 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 #3,009. See the growth leaderboard.

Tele Tracking

143
Zoll Circulation

143
Coopervision Inte…

142
Cohere

142
Fondazione Istitu…

142
Harting Electric…

142
Holtec Internatio…

142
IEE International…

142
DTS ◀

142

What this shows DTS holds 142 patents at rank #2,721, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DTS

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,721 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04S (Stereophonic Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DTS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04S (Stereophonic Systems), DTS ranks #11 of 384 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Ningbo Tuotuo River Design Company 48 Pluto Inc. 48 Hongik University Industry-academia Cooperation Foundation 48 Airbus Americas, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 19.1 avg Uatc, LLC 19.1 avg Electronic Arts Inc. 19.1 avg BlackBerry Limited 19.1 avg

DTS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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DTS, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	7.0%
2016	20	14.1%
2017	19	13.4%
2018	15	10.6%
2019	16	11.3%
2020	28	19.7%
2021	15	10.6%
2022	6	4.2%
2023	3	2.1%
2024	8	5.6%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does DTS, Inc. patent most?

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 84

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 66

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 63

H03G - Control OF Amplification 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 24

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

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 7

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 6

H04H - Broadcast Communication 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

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 3

Top 15 of 24 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

DTS, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DTS, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04S (Stereophonic Systems), 59.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04S
Ranked #2,721 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DTS, Inc. against Tele Tracking Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.8/100 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.