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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Plantronics, Inc. ranks #1,176 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 Plantronics, Inc. hold?

Plantronics, Inc. holds 362 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Plantronics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Plantronics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Plantronics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +13% 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 Plantronics, Inc.'s patents?

Plantronics, Inc.'s patents average 13.3 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 Plantronics, 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

Plantronics, Inc.

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

Plantronics, Inc.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 105 patents, ranking #42 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 362 granted patents across 60 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Plantronics ranks #1,176 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 362 patents across 60 technology areas.

#1,176
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.7/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1176 · US Corporation #1,176 · 362 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 362 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,176/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Coupang
CPC-WIDE H04R · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Coupang Corp. (±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 Plantronics’s 58.7 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 20.4 pts (35%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Plantronics · this assignee

59
Airbus Defence and… · near

59
Delta Faucet · near

59
Nippon Sheet Glass · near

59
Voith Patent · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Plantronics's Innovation Score is 58.7/100 (top 4% 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 Plantronics?

Each dot is one of Plantronics’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). Plantronics’s own 13.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Plantronics's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Plantronics, Inc. received 192 grants versus 170 in 2015–2019 (+13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 63 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 26. Lead class H04R accounts for 29% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (#1,172) and Osram Sylvania Inc. (#1,180).

Plantronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Plantronics, Inc. moved from 127 to 102 grants (0.80x 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 #1,837. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Electric G…

363
Sigmasense

363
Stryker European…

363
Coupang

362
Soochow University

362
Stryker European…

362
Plantronics ◀

362
Asia Vital Compon…

361
Osram Sylvania

361

What this shows Plantronics holds 362 patents at rank #1,176, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Plantronics

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,176 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Plantronics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Plantronics ranks #42 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 59 Voith Patent GmbH 59 Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited 59 Delta Faucet Company 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. 13.3 avg ELI Lilly AND Company 13.3 avg Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. 13.3 avg Dalian Institute OF Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 13.3 avg

Plantronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Plantronics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	7.2%
2016	38	10.5%
2017	40	11.0%
2018	29	8.0%
2019	37	10.2%
2020	46	12.7%
2021	44	12.2%
2022	39	10.8%
2023	63	17.4%

Which technologies does Plantronics, Inc. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 105

H04M - Telephonic Communication 66

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 52

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 44

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 37

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 22

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 11

H04B - Transmission 11

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 8

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

Top 15 of 60 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

Plantronics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Plantronics, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 29% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,176 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Plantronics, Inc. against Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.7/100 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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