Where does HED Technologies Sarl rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HED Technologies Sarl ranks #17,739 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 HED Technologies Sarl hold?

HED Technologies Sarl holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is HED Technologies Sarl's Innovation Score?

HED Technologies Sarl has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HED Technologies Sarl's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HED Technologies Sarl's recent grant velocity is +120% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for HED Technologies Sarl's patents?

HED Technologies Sarl's patents average 16.3 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 HED Technologies Sarl 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

HED Technologies Sarl

Q: What technology areas does HED Technologies Sarl focus on?

HED Technologies Sarl's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 11 patents, ranking #250 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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, HED ranks #17,739 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 9 technology areas.

#17,739
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +120%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17739 · Foreign Corporation #17,739 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,739/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hass
CPC-NARROW H04R · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +120% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hass Corporation (±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 HED’s 32.0 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 9.8 pts (31%) Velocity 1.8 pts (6%) Breadth 10.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HED Sarl · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows HED's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 HED?

Each dot is one of HED’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). HED’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where HED's grants concentrate

HED Technologies Sarl is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 68.8% 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 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, HED sits between Hass Corporation and HJ Laboratories, LLC.

HED's three-year grant acceleration

HED Technologies Sarl shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Hass

16
Hcmed Innovations

16
HDT Bio

16
Healthlead

16
HEP Tech

16
Heraeus Quartz No…

16
HID Global CID SAS

16
HJ Laboratories

16
HED Sarl ◀

16

What this shows HED holds 16 patents at rank #17,732, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HED

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,732 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

HED's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

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

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HED Technologies Sarl patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	6.3%
2018	1	6.3%
2019	3	18.8%
2020	3	18.8%
2021	5	31.3%
2023	2	12.5%
2024	1	6.3%

Which technologies does HED Technologies Sarl patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

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 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 9 of 9 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

HED Technologies Sarl's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HED Technologies Sarl's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #17,739 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HED Technologies Sarl against Hass Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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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