Where does PSS Belgium NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PSS Belgium NV ranks #13,638 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 PSS Belgium NV hold?

PSS Belgium NV holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is PSS Belgium NV's Innovation Score?

PSS Belgium NV has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is PSS Belgium NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

PSS Belgium NV's recent grant velocity is +160% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for PSS Belgium NV's patents?

PSS Belgium NV's patents average 16.9 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 PSS Belgium NV 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

PSS Belgium NV

Q: What technology areas does PSS Belgium NV focus on?

PSS Belgium NV's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 22 patents, ranking #124 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 8 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, PSS ranks #13,638 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 8 technology areas.

#13,638
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +160%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13638 · Foreign Corporation #13,638 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,638/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pacific Light
CPC-NARROW H04R · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +160% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pacific Light Technologies 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 PSS’s 51.0 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 10.8 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 10.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
PSS Belgium · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows PSS's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 PSS?

Each dot is one of PSS’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). PSS’s own 16.9 claims/patent is at or below the 19.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where PSS's grants concentrate

PSS Belgium NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, PSS sits between Precitec Optronik GMBH and Peratch Holdco Limited.

PSS's three-year grant acceleration

PSS Belgium NV shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Precitec Optronik

22
Prophesee

22
Proprio

22
Proteantecs

22
Pushd

22
Pacific Light

22
Paratek Pharmaceu…

22
Peratch Holdco

22
PSS Belgium ◀

22

What this shows PSS holds 22 patents at rank #13,617, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PSS

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,617 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

PSS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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PSS Belgium NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.5%
2017	2	9.1%
2019	2	9.1%
2020	1	4.5%
2022	4	18.2%
2023	4	18.2%
2024	4	18.2%
2025partial year	4	18.2%

Which technologies does PSS Belgium NV patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 22

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 4

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 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

Top 8 of 8 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

PSS Belgium NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

PSS Belgium NV's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #13,638 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PSS Belgium NV against Precitec Optronik GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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

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