Where does Pioneer DJ Coporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pioneer DJ Coporation ranks #8,663 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 Pioneer DJ Coporation hold?

Pioneer DJ Coporation holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Pioneer DJ Coporation's Innovation Score?

Pioneer DJ Coporation has an Innovation Score of 28.1 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pioneer DJ Coporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pioneer DJ Coporation's recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Pioneer DJ Coporation's patents?

Pioneer DJ Coporation's patents average 3.1 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 Pioneer DJ Coporation 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

Pioneer DJ Coporation

Q: What technology areas does Pioneer DJ Coporation focus on?

Pioneer DJ Coporation's top technology area is 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) with 9 patents, ranking #32 of 238 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pioneer ranks #8,663 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 15 technology areas.

#8,663
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.1/100): 3.1
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8663 · Foreign Corporation #8,663 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,663/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pandora Media
CPC-FOCUS G10H · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pandora Media, 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.

How Pioneer’s 28.1 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 12.6 pts (45%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 13.7 pts (49%) Claim depth 1.8 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AsterionDB · near

28
Cannuflow · near

28
Halo Neuro · near

28
Pioneer DJ Coporation · this assignee

28
Iris Automation · near

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pioneer's Innovation Score is 28.1/100 (26th 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 Pioneer?

Each dot is one of Pioneer’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). Pioneer’s own 3.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Pioneer's grants concentrate

Pioneer DJ Coporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 24.3% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Pioneer sits between Prologium Technology Co., Ltd. and RES USA, LLC.

Prologium Technol…

37
Protec

37
Pandora Media

37
Pieris Pharmaceut…

37
Pulse Finland OY

37
Quotient Technolo…

37
Relativity ODA

37
RES USA

37
Pioneer DJ Copora… ◀

37

What this shows Pioneer holds 37 patents at rank #8,665, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pioneer

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,665 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pioneer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments), Pioneer ranks #32 of 238 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (28 here).

Cannuflow, Inc. 28 Halo Neuro, Inc. 28 Iris Automation, Inc. 28 AsterionDB, Inc. 28

Pioneer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Pioneer DJ Coporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.7%
2016	7	18.9%
2017	6	16.2%
2018	7	18.9%
2019	12	32.4%
2020	4	10.8%

Which technologies does Pioneer DJ Coporation patent most?

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 9

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

A63J - Devices FOR Theatres, Circuses, OR THE LIKE; Conjuring Appliances OR THE Like 2

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

F16H - Gearing 1

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

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

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

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 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Pioneer DJ Coporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pioneer DJ Coporation's lead technology class is 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), 24.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10H
Ranked #8,663 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pioneer DJ Coporation against Prologium Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.1/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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