Where does Knowles Electronics, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knowles Electronics, LLC ranks #1,203 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 Electronics, LLC hold?

Knowles Electronics, LLC holds 352 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 53 technology areas.

What is Knowles Electronics, LLC's Innovation Score?

Knowles Electronics, LLC has an Innovation Score of 67.3 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 Knowles Electronics, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knowles Electronics, LLC's recent grant velocity is +15% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Knowles Electronics, LLC's patents?

Knowles Electronics, LLC's patents average 19.6 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 Knowles Electronics, LLC 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 Electronics, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Knowles Electronics, LLC focus on?

Knowles Electronics, LLC's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 312 patents. Grants appear in 53 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 352 granted patents across 53 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, Knowles ranks #1,203 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 352 patents across 53 technology areas.

#1,203
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.3/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1203 · US Corporation #1,203 · 352 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 352 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,203/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alstom Technology
CPC-WIDE H04R · 53 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alstom Technology 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NXP USA · near

67
The Broad Institute · near

67
Knowles · this assignee

67
The Government of… · near

67
IonQ · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knowles's Innovation Score is 67.3/100 (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.

How Knowles's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Knowles Electronics, LLC received 181 grants versus 157 in 2015–2019 (+15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 51 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 16. Lead class H04R accounts for 88.6% of the portfolio across 53 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hunter Douglas Inc. (#1,199) and Dongwoo Fine-chem Co., Ltd. (#1,207).

Knowles's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Knowles Electronics, LLC moved from 82 to 126 grants (1.54x 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 #422. See the growth leaderboard.

Hunter Douglas

354
AIR Products AND…

353
Applied Materials…

353
Alstom Technology

352
Praxair Technology

352
Seiko Instruments

352
Knowles ◀

352
Biedermann & KG

351
Dongwoo Fine-chem

351

What this shows Knowles holds 352 patents at rank #1,203, 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 #1,203 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Knowles, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

The Broad Institute, Inc. 67 The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security 67 IonQ, Inc. 67 NXP USA, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Dropbox, Inc. 19.6 avg Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. 19.6 avg Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. 19.6 avg Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC 19.6 avg

Knowles'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Knowles Electronics, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	8.2%
2016	38	10.8%
2017	39	11.1%
2018	24	6.8%
2019	27	7.7%
2020	16	4.5%
2021	39	11.1%
2022	51	14.5%
2023	51	14.5%
2024	24	6.8%
2025partial year	14	4.0%

Which technologies does Knowles Electronics, LLC patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 312

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 107

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 54

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 51

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 21

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 18

H03F - Amplifiers 18

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

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 12

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 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 10

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 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

Top 15 of 53 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,203

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Knowles Electronics, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knowles Electronics, LLC's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 88.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,203 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knowles Electronics, LLC against Hunter Douglas Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.3/100 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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