Where does Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. ranks #16,933 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 Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. hold?

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. focus on?

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s top technology area is H01P (WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type) with 17 patents, ranking #33 of 507 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +550% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s patents?

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. 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

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 8 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: H01P (WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Knowles ranks #16,933 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,933
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +550%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16933 · US Corporation #16,933 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,933/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kilpatrick Townsend…
CPC-NARROW H01P · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +550% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (±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 Knowles’s 51.0 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 10.0 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 10.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Knowles Cazenovia · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knowles's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 Knowles?

Each dot is one of Knowles’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). Knowles’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Knowles's grants concentrate

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01P (WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Knowles sits between Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP and Laerdal Medical AS.

Knowles's three-year grant acceleration

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Kilpatrick Townse…

17
Kionix

17
Kit Check

17
Kittrich

17
Kurimoto

17
Kyocera AVX Compo…

17
L3 Cincinnati

17
Laerdal Medical AS

17
Knowles Cazenovia ◀

17

What this shows Knowles holds 17 patents at rank #16,938, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Knowles

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,938 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01P (Waveguides)

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

Knowles's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.9%
2017	1	5.9%
2020	2	11.8%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	7	41.2%
2023	3	17.6%
2025partial year	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. patent most?

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 17

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01P (WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01P
Ranked #16,933 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. against Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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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