Where does GN Audio A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GN Audio A/S ranks #2,089 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 GN Audio A/S hold?

GN Audio A/S holds 189 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is GN Audio A/S's Innovation Score?

GN Audio A/S has an Innovation Score of 51.5 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GN Audio A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GN Audio A/S's recent grant velocity is +203% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for GN Audio A/S's patents?

GN Audio A/S's patents average 6.7 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 GN Audio A/S 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

GN Audio A/S

Q: What technology areas does GN Audio A/S focus on?

GN Audio A/S's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 56 patents, ranking #68 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 189 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, GN ranks #2,089 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 189 patents across 28 technology areas.

#2,089
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.5/100): 6.7
avg claims per patent: +203%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2089 · Foreign Corporation #2,089 · 189 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 189 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,089/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Allscripts Software
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +203% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Allscripts Software, LLC (±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 GN’s 51.5 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 18.1 pts (35%) Velocity 10.6 pts (21%) Breadth 18.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 4.0 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GN Audio A/S · this assignee

51
Novozymes · near

51
Precision Combustion · near

51
Shaper Tools · near

51
Sumitomo Electric… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GN's Innovation Score is 51.5/100 (top 11% 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 GN?

Each dot is one of GN’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). GN’s own 6.7 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where GN's grants concentrate

GN Audio A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 29.6% 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 2022 (35 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, GN sits between Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG and Tyco Electronics Japan G.K..

GN's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GN Audio A/S moved from 54 to 86 grants (1.59x 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 #384. See the growth leaderboard.

Smith & Nephew Or…

190
Volvo Lastvagnar…

190
Allscripts Softwa…

189
Chiesi Farmaceuti…

189
Okuma

189
Polycom

189
Reckitt Benckiser…

189
Tyco Japan G K

189
GN Audio A/S ◀

189

What this shows GN holds 189 patents at rank #2,089, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GN

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,089 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), GN ranks #68 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Novozymes, Inc. 51 Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc. 51 Precision Combustion, Inc. 51 Shaper Tools, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.7 here).

Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd 6.7 avg Daimler Truck AG 6.7 avg Fiskars Brands, Inc. 6.7 avg Progressive International Corp. 6.7 avg

GN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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GN Audio A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	2.1%
2017	2	1.1%
2018	11	5.8%
2019	22	11.6%
2020	9	4.8%
2021	23	12.2%
2022	35	18.5%
2023	23	12.2%
2024	28	14.8%
2025partial year	32	16.9%

Which technologies does GN Audio A/S patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 56

H04M - Telephonic Communication 18

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

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 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

Top 15 of 28 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

GN Audio A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GN Audio A/S's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 29.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #2,089 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GN Audio A/S against Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.5/100 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

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