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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GN Hearing A/S ranks #1,036 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 Hearing A/S hold?

GN Hearing A/S holds 421 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

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

GN Hearing A/S has an Innovation Score of 67.1 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%).

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

GN Hearing A/S's recent grant velocity is +136% 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 Hearing A/S's patents?

GN Hearing A/S's patents average 23.6 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 Hearing 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 Hearing A/S

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

GN Hearing 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 383 patents, ranking #13 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 421 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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 #1,036 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 421 patents across 44 technology areas.

#1,036
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.1/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent: +136%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1036 · Foreign Corporation #1,036 · 421 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 421 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,036/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advics
CPC-WIDE H04R · 44 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +136% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advics Co., Ltd. (±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 67.1 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 20.9 pts (31%) Velocity 8.6 pts (13%) Breadth 23.5 pts (35%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accenture Global… · near

67
GN Hearing A/S · this assignee

67
Nichia · near

67
ABB Schweiz · near

67
DePuy Synthes Products · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GN's Innovation Score is 67.1/100 (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 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 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where GN's grants concentrate

GN Hearing A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 91% 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 2024 (63 grants) versus a trough of 33 in 2017. By volume, GN sits between SRI International and Varian Medical Systems, Inc..

GN's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GN Hearing A/S moved from 134 to 172 grants (1.28x 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 #669. See the growth leaderboard.

SRI International

424
Isuzu Motors

423
Fu Tai Hua Indust…

422
Advics

421
Worldpay

421
GN Hearing A/S ◀

421
Depuy Ireland Unl…

420
Scania CV AB

420
Varian Medical Sy…

419

What this shows GN holds 421 patents at rank #1,036, 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 #1,036 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 #13 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Nichia Corporation 67 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 67 DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. 67 ABB Schweiz AG 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.6 here).

Conviva Inc. 23.6 avg Gecko Robotics, Inc. 23.6 avg Largan Precision Co., Ltd. 23.6 avg i4F Licensing NV 23.6 avg

GN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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GN Hearing A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	33	7.8%
2018	34	8.1%
2019	44	10.5%
2020	44	10.5%
2021	46	10.9%
2022	54	12.8%
2023	55	13.1%
2024	63	15.0%
2025partial year	48	11.4%

Which technologies does GN Hearing A/S patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 383

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 41

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 39

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 38

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 35

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 33

H04B - Transmission 20

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 16

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 16

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 15

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 8

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

Top 15 of 44 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 Hearing A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GN Hearing A/S's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 91% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,036 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GN Hearing A/S against SRI International, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.1/100 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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