Where does Pearl Musical Instrument Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pearl Musical Instrument Company ranks #19,011 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 Pearl Musical Instrument Company hold?

Pearl Musical Instrument Company holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Pearl Musical Instrument Company's Innovation Score?

Pearl Musical Instrument Company has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pearl Musical Instrument Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pearl Musical Instrument Company's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Pearl Musical Instrument Company's patents?

Pearl Musical Instrument Company's patents average 17.9 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 Pearl Musical Instrument Company 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

Pearl Musical Instrument Company

Q: What technology areas does Pearl Musical Instrument Company focus on?

Pearl Musical Instrument Company's top technology area is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 14 patents, ranking #8 of 62 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 5 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: G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pearl ranks #19,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 5 technology areas.

#19,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19011 · Foreign Corporation #19,011 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pablo AIR
CPC-NARROW G10D · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pablo AIR Co., Ltd. (±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 Pearl’s 32.2 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 9.6 pts (30%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 7.9 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BLY IP · near

32
Pearl Musical… · this assignee

32
quadric io · near

32
Georg UTZ Holding · near

32
Haskell Office · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pearl's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (40th percentile 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 Pearl?

Each dot is one of Pearl’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). Pearl’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pearl's grants concentrate

Pearl Musical Instrument Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 93.3% of grants classified under G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Pearl sits between Pablo AIR Co., Ltd. and Petaio Inc..

Pearl's three-year grant acceleration

Pearl Musical Instrument Company shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Pablo AIR

15
Pacific GAS AND E…

15
Pacificedge

15
Pallmann Maschine…

15
Pelmorex Canada

15
Pentax Ricoh Imag…

15
PEP Innovation PTE

15
Petaio

15
Pearl Musical Ins… ◀

15

What this shows Pearl holds 15 patents at rank #18,996, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pearl

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,996 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10D (Stringed Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pearl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10D (Stringed Musical Instruments), Pearl ranks #8 of 62 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

quadric.io, Inc. 32 BLY IP Inc. 32 Georg UTZ Holding AG 32 Haskell Office, LLC 32

Pearl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Pearl Musical Instrument Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.7%
2016	5	33.3%
2017	1	6.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	2	13.3%
2021	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	2	13.3%

Which technologies does Pearl Musical Instrument Company patent most?

G10D - Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

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 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Pearl Musical Instrument Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pearl Musical Instrument Company's lead technology class is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P), 93.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10D
Ranked #19,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pearl Musical Instrument Company against Pablo AIR Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.