Where does Intricon Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intricon Corporation ranks #22,803 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Intricon Corporation hold?

Intricon Corporation holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Intricon Corporation's Innovation Score?

Intricon Corporation has an Innovation Score of 32.3 out of 100 (top 59% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Intricon Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intricon Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Intricon Corporation's patents?

Intricon Corporation's patents average 16.4 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 Intricon Corporation 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 US Corporation

Intricon Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Intricon Corporation focus on?

Intricon Corporation's top technology area is H04R (LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 11 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, Intricon ranks #22,803 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 11 technology areas.

#22,803
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 59%
by Innovation Score (32.3/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22803 · US Corporation #22,803 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,803/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Intergas Heating Ass…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intergas Heating Assets B.v. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intricon · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Intricon's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (top 59% 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.

Where Intricon's grants concentrate

Intricon Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 75% 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 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Intricon sits between Intergas Heating Assets B.v. and Ironhawk Industrial Distribution Llc.

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12

What this shows Intricon holds 12 patents at rank #22,805, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intricon

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,805 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Intricon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 59% higher than 41% of 50,000 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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Intricon Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	4	33.3%
2024	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Intricon Corporation patent most?

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 9

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

Y02D - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE 2

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 2

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,803

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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