Where does Oticon Medical A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oticon Medical A/S ranks #3,571 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 Oticon Medical A/S hold?

Oticon Medical A/S holds 103 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Oticon Medical A/S's Innovation Score?

Oticon Medical A/S has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oticon Medical A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oticon Medical A/S's recent grant velocity is +68% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Oticon Medical A/S's patents?

Oticon Medical A/S's patents average 16.1 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 Oticon Medical A/S 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

Oticon Medical A/S

Q: What technology areas does Oticon Medical A/S focus on?

Oticon Medical A/S's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 69 patents, ranking #57 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 103 granted patents across 25 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, Oticon ranks #3,571 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 103 patents across 25 technology areas.

#3,571
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3571 · Foreign Corporation #3,571 · 103 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 103 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,571/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magnecomp
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magnecomp 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 Oticon’s 52.4 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 16.0 pts (31%) Velocity 9.0 pts (17%) Breadth 17.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Element Six · near

52
Hisense International · near

52
Oticon Medical A/S · this assignee

52
Sunnybrook Research… · near

52
Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oticon's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 Oticon?

Each dot is one of Oticon’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). Oticon’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oticon's grants concentrate

Oticon Medical A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 67% 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 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Oticon sits between MSA Technology, LLC and Ratier-figeac SAS.

Oticon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oticon Medical A/S moved from 31 to 42 grants (1.35x 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 #572. See the growth leaderboard.

MSA Technology

103
Magnecomp

103
Mazor Robotics

103
Nidec Copal

103
Pictometry Intern…

103
Plastipak Packagi…

103
Qatar University

103
Ratier-figeac SAS

103
Oticon Medical A/S ◀

103

What this shows Oticon holds 103 patents at rank #3,571, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oticon

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,571 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oticon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Oticon ranks #57 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Element Six Limited 52 Sunnybrook Research Institute 52 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho 52 Hisense International Co., Ltd. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. 16.1 avg Translate BIO, Inc. 16.1 avg Rakuten Mobile, Inc. 16.1 avg Victaulic Company 16.1 avg

Oticon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Oticon Medical A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.9%
2016	5	4.9%
2017	10	9.7%
2018	8	7.8%
2019	11	10.7%
2020	16	15.5%
2021	4	3.9%
2022	13	12.6%
2023	15	14.6%
2024	14	13.6%
2025partial year	4	3.9%

Which technologies does Oticon Medical A/S patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 69

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 54

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 9

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 7

H04B - Transmission 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 2

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Oticon Medical A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oticon Medical A/S's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 67% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #3,571 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oticon Medical A/S against MSA Technology, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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.

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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

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