Where does Koss Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koss Corporation ranks #6,674 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 Koss Corporation hold?

Koss Corporation holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Koss Corporation's Innovation Score?

Koss Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.3 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Koss Corporation focus on?

Koss Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 42 patents, ranking #1,121 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

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

Koss Corporation's recent grant velocity is +23% 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 Koss Corporation's patents?

Koss Corporation's patents average 22.6 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 Koss 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

Koss Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 8 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Koss ranks #6,674 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,674
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 22.6
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6674 · US Corporation #6,674 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,674/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kagoshima University
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kagoshima University (±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 Koss’s 41.3 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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 4.1 pts (10%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 13.6 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AMX · near

41
Beto Engineering &… · near

41
DCNS · near

41
Koss · this assignee

41
Nitto Kohki · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koss's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (top 33% 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 Koss?

Each dot is one of Koss’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). Koss’s own 22.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Koss's grants concentrate

Koss Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 84% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Koss sits between Kiss Nail Products, Inc. and Montage Technology, Inc..

Koss's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Koss Corporation moved from 21 to 13 grants (0.62x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kiss Nail Products

50
Klingelnberg

50
Kosmek

50
Kagoshima Univers…

50
Lamb Weston

50
Loci Controls

50
Mftb Holdco

50
Montage Technology

50
Koss ◀

50

What this shows Koss holds 50 patents at rank #6,673, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koss

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,673 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koss, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Koss ranks #1,121 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

AMX LLC 41 Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd. 41 Beto Engineering & Marketing Co., Ltd. 41 DCNS 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.6 here).

Movidius Limited 22.6 avg Berg Companies, Inc. 22.6 avg On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 22.6 avg Nguyen Gaming LLC 22.6 avg

Koss's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Koss Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	10.0%
2016	3	6.0%
2017	3	6.0%
2018	4	8.0%
2019	7	14.0%
2020	11	22.0%
2021	3	6.0%
2022	4	8.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	4	8.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Koss Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 42

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 42

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 42

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 40

H04M - Telephonic Communication 33

H04H - Broadcast Communication 32

H03G - Control OF Amplification 32

H03K - Pulse Technique 32

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Koss Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koss Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 84% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #6,674 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koss Corporation against Kiss Nail Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.3/100 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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