Where does Nuance Communications, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nuance Communications, Inc. ranks #598 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 Nuance Communications, Inc. hold?

Nuance Communications, Inc. holds 740 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Nuance Communications, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nuance Communications, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nuance Communications, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nuance Communications, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -72% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Nuance Communications, Inc.'s patents?

Nuance Communications, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Nuance Communications, 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

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nuance Communications, Inc. focus on?

Nuance Communications, Inc.'s top technology area is G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding) with 529 patents, ranking #10 of 1,620 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 740 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nuance ranks #598 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 740 patents across 40 technology areas.

#598
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R598 · US Corporation #598 · 740 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 740 grants
TOP-DECILE #598/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Zoll Medical
CPC-WIDE G10L · 40 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zoll Medical 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 Nuance’s 60.1 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 22.8 pts (38%) Velocity 3.3 pts (5%) Breadth 22.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crestron · near

60
Edwards · near

60
Elta Systems · near

60
KSB SE & KGaA · near

60
Nuance Communications · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nuance's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 4% 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 Nuance?

Each dot is one of Nuance’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). Nuance’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nuance's grants concentrate

Nuance Communications, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 71.5% of grants classified under G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (147 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Nuance sits between Spigen Korea Co., Ltd. and Husqvarna AB.

Nuance's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nuance Communications, Inc. moved from 149 to 73 grants (0.49x 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 #2,716. See the growth leaderboard.

Spigen Korea

749
The Toronto-domin…

748
Steering Solution…

747
Shanghai Tianma M…

743
Zoll Medical

740
Nuance Communicat… ◀

740
Lexmark Internati…

737
Denso Internation…

736
Husqvarna AB

736

What this shows Nuance holds 740 patents at rank #598, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nuance

By rank, the assignees closest to #598 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nuance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis), Nuance ranks #10 of 1,620 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Crestron Electronics, Inc. 60 Edwards Limited 60 Elta Systems Ltd. 60 KSB SE & Co. KGaA 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Twitter, Inc. 19.4 avg Extreme Networks, Inc. 19.4 avg Comscore, Inc. 19.4 avg Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. 19.4 avg

Nuance's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Nuance Communications, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	147	19.9%
2016	134	18.1%
2017	139	18.8%
2018	98	13.2%
2019	62	8.4%
2020	49	6.6%
2021	38	5.1%
2022	44	5.9%
2023	28	3.8%
2024	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Nuance Communications, Inc. patent most?

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 529

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 354

H04M - Telephonic Communication 112

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 95

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 93

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 75

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 73

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 67

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 49

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 39

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 35

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 33

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 30

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 26

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 19

Top 15 of 40 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

Nuance Communications, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nuance Communications, Inc.'s lead technology class is G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding), 71.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10L
Ranked #598 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nuance Communications, Inc. against Spigen Korea Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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