Where does Shazam Entertainment Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shazam Entertainment Limited ranks #27,363 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 Shazam Entertainment Limited hold?

Shazam Entertainment Limited holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Shazam Entertainment Limited's Innovation Score?

Shazam Entertainment Limited has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shazam Entertainment Limited focus on?

Shazam Entertainment Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shazam Entertainment Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shazam Entertainment Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Shazam Entertainment Limited's patents?

Shazam Entertainment Limited's patents average 28.0 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 Shazam Entertainment Limited 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

Shazam Entertainment Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shazam ranks #27,363 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#27,363
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 28.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27363 · Foreign Corporation #27,363 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,363/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shanghai Lepu CloudMed
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shanghai Lepu CloudMed Co., Ltd (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eaton Electrical IP… · near

33
Guala Dispensing S P A · near

33
Noxgear · near

33
Shazam Entertainment · this assignee

33
Vonage Network · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shazam's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th 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.

Where Shazam's grants concentrate

Shazam Entertainment Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Shazam sits between Shanghai Lepu CloudMed Co., Ltd and Shenzhen Ausounds Intelligent Co., Ltd..

Shanghai Lepu Clo…

10
Shanq Dih

10
Shape Memory Medi…

10
Shapeways

10
Sheetak

10
Shenb

10
Shenyang Xinchuan…

10
Shenzhen Ausounds…

10
Shazam Entertainm… ◀

10

What this shows Shazam holds 10 patents at rank #27,447, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shazam

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,447 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shazam, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Noxgear, LLC 33 Eaton Electrical IP GMBH & Co. KG 33 Vonage Network, LLC 33 Guala Dispensing S.P.A. 33

Shazam's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Shazam Entertainment Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2016	5	50.0%
2018	3	30.0%

Which technologies does Shazam Entertainment Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04H - Broadcast Communication 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

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 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

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 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#27,363

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Shazam Entertainment Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shazam Entertainment Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #27,363 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shazam Entertainment Limited against Shanghai Lepu CloudMed Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.