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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,763 granted patents across 338 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, Fraunhofer-gesellschaft ranks #137 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,763 patents across 338 technology areas.

#137
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.0/100)
18.2
avg claims per patent
+33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R137 · Foreign Corporation #137 · 2,763 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-LARGE 2.8K grants
  • TOP-DECILE #137/49,997
  • NEAR-PEER Rohm
  • CPC-BROAD G10L · 338 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 71.0/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-UP +33% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rohm Co., Ltd. (±10 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Fraunhofer-gesellschaft

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Fraunhofer-gesellschaft's Innovation Score is 71.0/100 (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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

How Fraunhofer-gesellschaft's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. received 1,445 grants versus 1,087 in 2015–2019 (+33% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 356 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 194. Lead class G10L accounts for 27.5% of the portfolio across 338 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (#133) and NXP USA, Inc. (#141).

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. moved from 811 to 930 grants (1.15x 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 #871. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft holds 2,763 patents at rank #137, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

By rank, the assignees closest to #137 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Analog Devices International Unlimited Company 71 Stmicroelectronics (GRAND OUEST) SAS 71 Dish Network L.L.C. 71 Covidien LP 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Interdigital VC Holdings, Inc. 18.2 avg Encore Wire Corporation 18.2 avg WIN Semiconductors Corp. 18.2 avg MobiTV, Inc. 18.2 avg

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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

150200250300350400 20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025 231
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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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 194 7.0%
2016 196 7.1%
2017 202 7.3%
2018 199 7.2%
2019 296 10.7%
2020 267 9.7%
2021 248 9.0%
2022 301 10.9%
2023 273 9.9%
2024 356 12.9%
2025partial year 231 8.4%

Which technologies does Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. patent most?

Top 15 of 338 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#137

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

71.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.'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), 27.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10L
  • Ranked #137 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. against Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 71.0/100 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

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.