Where does Focal Jmlab rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Focal Jmlab ranks #14,620 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 Focal Jmlab hold?

Focal Jmlab holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Focal Jmlab's Innovation Score?

Focal Jmlab has an Innovation Score of 23.6 out of 100 (12th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Focal Jmlab's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Focal Jmlab's recent grant velocity is -73% 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 Focal Jmlab's patents?

Focal Jmlab's patents average 4.8 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 Focal Jmlab 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

Focal Jmlab

Q: What technology areas does Focal Jmlab focus on?

Focal Jmlab's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 8 patents, ranking #310 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 7 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Focal ranks #14,620 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 7 technology areas.

#14,620
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 12th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.6/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14620 · Foreign Corporation #14,620 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,620/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faradion
CPC-NARROW H04R · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faradion Limited (±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 Focal’s 23.6 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 10.5 pts (44%) Velocity 0.8 pts (3%) Breadth 9.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 2.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Focal Jmlab · this assignee

24
Grifols Therapeutics · near

24
Picote Solutions · near

24
Tuf-tite · near

24
Bluebonnet Foods · near

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Focal's Innovation Score is 23.6/100 (12th 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 Focal?

Each dot is one of Focal’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). Focal’s own 4.8 claims/patent is at or below the 10.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Focal's grants concentrate

Focal Jmlab is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Focal sits between Faradion Limited and FXD, LLC.

Focal's three-year grant acceleration

Focal Jmlab shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Faradion

20
Ferrara Candy

20
First RF

20
Fleece Performanc…

20
Fort Hills Energy

20
Foursquare Labs

20
Fuji Kogyo

20
FXD

20
Focal Jmlab ◀

20

What this shows Focal holds 20 patents at rank #14,613, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Focal

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,613 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Focal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Focal ranks #310 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (24 here).

Tuf-tite, Inc. 24 Grifols Therapeutics Inc. 24 Picote Solutions Inc. 24 Bluebonnet Foods, L.P. 24

Focal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 12th percentile higher than 12% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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Focal Jmlab patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	3	15.0%
2017	6	30.0%
2019	5	25.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2023	1	5.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Focal Jmlab patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 8

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 3

H03F - Amplifiers 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Focal Jmlab's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Focal Jmlab's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #14,620 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Focal Jmlab against Faradion Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 23.6/100 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

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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