Where does Sennheiser Communications A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sennheiser Communications A/S ranks #10,447 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 Sennheiser Communications A/S hold?

Sennheiser Communications A/S holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Sennheiser Communications A/S's Innovation Score?

Sennheiser Communications A/S has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sennheiser Communications A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sennheiser Communications A/S's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Sennheiser Communications A/S's patents?

Sennheiser Communications A/S's patents average 10.8 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 Sennheiser Communications 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

Sennheiser Communications A/S

Q: What technology areas does Sennheiser Communications A/S focus on?

Sennheiser Communications 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 16 patents, ranking #167 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 16 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: 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, Sennheiser ranks #10,447 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 16 technology areas.

#10,447
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10447 · Foreign Corporation #10,447 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,447/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Armstrong
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: S.A. Armstrong Limited (±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 Sennheiser’s 32.5 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 11.9 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Braze · near

32
Guangzhou Baomei… · near

32
Nokian Heavy Tyres · near

32
Pacific Handy Cutter · near

32
Sennheiser Communica… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sennheiser's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (41st 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 Sennheiser?

Each dot is one of Sennheiser’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). Sennheiser’s own 10.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sennheiser's grants concentrate

Sennheiser Communications A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 53.3% 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 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Sennheiser sits between S.A. Armstrong Limited and Skyline Partners Technology LLC.

Armstrong

30
Photonics

30
Salvatore Ferraga…

30
Scaleflux

30
Shenzhen Prime Te…

30
Siemens China

30
SK microworks

30
Skyline Partners…

30
Sennheiser Commun… ◀

30

What this shows Sennheiser holds 30 patents at rank #10,446, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sennheiser

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,446 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sennheiser, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Sennheiser ranks #167 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Nokian Heavy Tyres Ltd 32 Guangzhou Baomei Network Technology Co., Ltd. 32 Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc. 32 Braze, Inc. 32

Sennheiser's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% 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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Sennheiser Communications A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	13.3%
2016	3	10.0%
2017	3	10.0%
2018	5	16.7%
2019	10	33.3%
2020	5	16.7%

Which technologies does Sennheiser Communications A/S patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 16

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

H04B - Transmission 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 2

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

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H03F - Amplifiers 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Sennheiser Communications A/S's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 53.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #10,447 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sennheiser Communications A/S against S.A. Armstrong Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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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