Where does Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG ranks #2,566 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 electronic GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG holds 152 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 47.5 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 electronic GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 10.5 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 electronic GmbH & Co. KG 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 electronic GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 95 patents, ranking #43 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 152 granted patents across 33 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: 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 #2,566 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 152 patents across 33 technology areas.

#2,566
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2566 · Foreign Corporation #2,566 · 152 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 152 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,566/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanotek Instruments…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanotek Instruments Group, LLC (±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 47.5 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 17.4 pts (37%) Velocity 3.5 pts (7%) Breadth 20.3 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Corn Products… · near

47
Loci Controls · near

47
Sennheiser & KG · this assignee

47
Sentinel Labs Israel · near

47
Swep International AB · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sennheiser's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (top 18% 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 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sennheiser's grants concentrate

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 62.5% 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 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Sennheiser sits between Nanotek Instruments Group, LLC and AMS Sensors Singapore PTE. Ltd..

Sennheiser's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG moved from 50 to 26 grants (0.52x 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 #2,637. See the growth leaderboard.

Nanotek Instrumen…

152
Nevro

152
Peregrine Semicon…

152
Sofradim Producti…

152
The Urban Electric

152
Sennheiser & KG ◀

152
AIR Cool Industri…

151
Amada

151
AMS Sensors Singa…

151

What this shows Sennheiser holds 152 patents at rank #2,567, 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 #2,567 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 #43 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Corn Products Development, Inc. 47 Loci Controls, Inc. 47 Sentinel Labs Israel Ltd. 47 Swep International AB 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. 10.5 avg Poly-America, L.P. 10.5 avg Shanghai University 10.5 avg Microsemi SoC Corp. 10.5 avg

Sennheiser's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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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.

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Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	15.8%
2016	15	9.9%
2017	19	12.5%
2018	18	11.8%
2019	21	13.8%
2020	15	9.9%
2021	14	9.2%
2022	15	9.9%
2023	8	5.3%
2024	3	2.0%

Which technologies does Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 95

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

H03G - Control OF Amplification 7

H04B - Transmission 7

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 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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 4

H03F - Amplifiers 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

Top 15 of 33 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 electronic GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #2,566 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG against Nanotek Instruments Group, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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.

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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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