Where does Onkyo Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Onkyo Corporation ranks #4,390 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 Onkyo Corporation hold?

Onkyo Corporation holds 81 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Onkyo Corporation's Innovation Score?

Onkyo Corporation has an Innovation Score of 40.0 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Onkyo Corporation's recent grant velocity is -79% 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 Onkyo Corporation's patents?

Onkyo Corporation's patents average 6.5 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 Onkyo 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 Foreign Corporation

Onkyo Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Onkyo Corporation focus on?

Onkyo Corporation's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 39 patents, ranking #83 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 81 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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, Onkyo ranks #4,390 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 81 patents across 34 technology areas.

#4,390
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.0/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4390 · Foreign Corporation #4,390 · 81 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 81 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,390/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Molten Metal…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 34 areas
INNOV-THIN 40.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, LLC (±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 Onkyo’s 40.0 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 15.2 pts (38%) Velocity 0.2 pts (1%) Breadth 20.6 pts (52%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Helsinn Healthcare · near

40
Mid-West Metal… · near

40
Affordable Wire… · near

40
Onkyo · this assignee

40
Zhejiang Hengfeng… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Onkyo's Innovation Score is 40.0/100 (top 37% 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 Onkyo?

Each dot is one of Onkyo’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). Onkyo’s own 6.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Onkyo's grants concentrate

Onkyo Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 48.1% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Onkyo sits between Musashi Engineering, Inc. and Shinshu University.

Onkyo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Onkyo Corporation moved from 32 to 1 grants (0.03x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Musashi Engineeri…

81
Molten Metal Equi…

81
Natura COSMÉTicos

81
Obrist Closures S…

81
Pierre Fabre MÉDi…

81
Poly-america

81
Rex Medical

81
Shinshu University

81
Onkyo ◀

81

What this shows Onkyo holds 81 patents at rank #4,389, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Onkyo

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,389 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Onkyo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Onkyo ranks #83 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Affordable Wire Management, LLC 40 Mid-West Metal Products Company, Inc. 40 Helsinn Healthcare SA 40 Zhejiang Hengfeng Top Leisure Co., Ltd. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.5 here).

Bradley Fixtures, LLC 6.5 avg Chapin Manufacturing, Inc. 6.5 avg China University of Mining and Technology 6.5 avg Yazaki Corporation 6.5 avg

Onkyo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Onkyo Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	14.8%
2016	14	17.3%
2017	11	13.6%
2018	11	13.6%
2019	19	23.5%
2020	10	12.3%
2021	3	3.7%
2022	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Onkyo Corporation patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 39

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 10

H03F - Amplifiers 9

H03G - Control OF Amplification 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

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 3

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 3

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 3

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 3

Top 15 of 34 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

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

Onkyo Corporation's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 48.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #4,390 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Onkyo Corporation against Musashi Engineering, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.0/100 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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