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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smule, Inc. ranks #3,717 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 Smule, Inc. hold?

Smule, Inc. holds 98 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Smule, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Smule, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.1 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Smule, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -34% 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 Smule, Inc.'s patents?

Smule, Inc.'s patents average 19.0 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 Smule, 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

Smule, Inc.

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

Smule, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 63 patents, ranking #5 of 238 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 98 granted patents across 16 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smule ranks #3,717 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 98 patents across 16 technology areas.

#3,717
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.1/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: -34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3717 · US Corporation #3,717 · 98 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 98 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,717/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Purem
CPC-FOCUS G10H · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Purem GmbH (±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 Smule’s 46.1 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 15.9 pts (35%) Velocity 4.6 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Defond Componets · near

46
Gradiant · near

46
Inscripta · near

46
Leggett & Platt Canada · near

46
Smule · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smule's Innovation Score is 46.1/100 (top 22% 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 Smule?

Each dot is one of Smule’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). Smule’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Smule's grants concentrate

Smule, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 64.3% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (21 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2016. By volume, Smule sits between Purem GmbH and Tohoku Pioneer Corporation.

Smule's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Smule, Inc. moved from 33 to 23 grants (0.70x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Purem

98
Qingdao Haier Ref…

98
Rapidsos

98
Reliance Worldwide

98
Samumed

98
Sinfonia Technolo…

98
Strong Force TX P…

98
Tohoku Pioneer

98
Smule ◀

98

What this shows Smule holds 98 patents at rank #3,715, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smule

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,715 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smule, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments), Smule ranks #5 of 238 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Inscripta Inc. 46 Gradiant Corporation 46 Defond Componets Limited 46 Leggett & Platt Canada Co. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

University of Maryland 19.0 avg Asana, Inc. 19.0 avg Datalogic USA, Inc. 19.0 avg Climate LLC 19.0 avg

Smule's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Smule, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	8.2%
2016	4	4.1%
2017	21	21.4%
2018	7	7.1%
2019	18	18.4%
2020	6	6.1%
2021	9	9.2%
2022	8	8.2%
2023	7	7.1%
2024	8	8.2%
2025partial year	2	2.0%

Which technologies does Smule, Inc. patent most?

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 63

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 41

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 21

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 17

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 11

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 5

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04B - Transmission 3

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 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

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

Smule, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 64.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10H
Ranked #3,717 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smule, Inc. against Purem GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.1/100 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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