Where does OBEN, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), OBEN, Inc. ranks #21,543 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 OBEN, Inc. hold?

OBEN, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is OBEN, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

OBEN, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 22.0 out of 100 (top 91% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

OBEN, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +17% 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 OBEN, Inc.'s patents?

OBEN, Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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 OBEN, 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

OBEN, Inc.

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

OBEN, 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 12 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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, OBEN ranks #21,543 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 3 technology areas.

#21,543
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 91%
by Innovation Score (22.0/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21543 · US Corporation #21,543 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,543/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Northquip
CPC-NARROW G10L · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Northquip Inc. (±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
360 Electrical L l c · near

22
OBEN · this assignee

22
Sistema Plastics · near

22
Boston Microfluidics · near

22
Nexen Tire · near

22
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows OBEN's Innovation Score is 22.0/100 (top 91% 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 OBEN's grants concentrate

OBEN, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 92.3% 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 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, OBEN sits between Northquip Inc. and OHFG Technologies(shanghai) Co., Ltd..

Northquip

13
Novate Medical

13
Novian Health

13
Nutrition21

13
Obshchestvo S Ogr…

13
Oculus Optikgerae…

13
Oerlikon Metco Wo…

13
OHFG (Shanghai)

13
OBEN ◀

13

What this shows OBEN holds 13 patents at rank #21,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near OBEN

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (22 here).

Sistema Plastics Limited 22 360 Electrical, L.l.c. 22 Boston Microfluidics Inc. 22 Nexen Tire Corporation 22

OBEN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 Top 91% higher than 9% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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OBEN, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	7.7%
2019	5	38.5%
2020	5	38.5%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%

Which technologies does OBEN, Inc. patent most?

G10L - SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING 12

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 3

G10H - ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE 2

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,543

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

22.0 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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