Sonos Experience Limited
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H04B (Transmission).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Sonos ranks #25,260 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 8 technology areas.
- #25,260
- of 49,997 US assignees by volume
- Top 9%
- by Innovation Score (53.3/100)
- 24.6
- avg claims per patent
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R25260 · Foreign Corporation #25,260 · 11 grants
GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH
- GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
- MID-PACK #25,260/49,997
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonata Scientific
- CPC-NARROW H04B · 8 areas
- INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
- CLAIMS-DENSE 24.6 claims/avg
- TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
- SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
- BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields
Nearest grant-volume peer: Sonata Scientific 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 Sonos’s 53.3 Innovation Score adds up
The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.
Innovation-score neighbourhood around Sonos
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
- Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
- Sonos Experience · this assignee
Sonos Experience · this assignee
53 score
- 3D Lighting… · lowest 7
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Sonos's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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 Sonos?
Each dot is one of Sonos’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). Sonos’s own 24.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 19.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.
Where Sonos's grants concentrate
Sonos Experience Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H04B (Transmission). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Sonos sits between Sonata Scientific LLC and Spectricity.
Sonos's three-year grant acceleration
Sonos Experience Limited shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.
Who files at Sonos's volume?
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
- Sonata Scientific
Sonata Scientific LLC
11 patents
- Sonics
Sonics, Inc.
11 patents
- Sonim
Sonim Technologies, Inc.
11 patents
- Sonivie
Sonivie Ltd.
11 patents
- Sound Devices
Sound Devices LLC
11 patents
- Spatial Cam
Spatial Cam LLC
11 patents
- Spawnt Private S…
Spawnt Private S.à.r.l.
11 patents
- Spectricity
Spectricity
11 patents
- Sonos Experience ◀
Sonos Experience Limited
11 patents
What this shows Sonos holds 11 patents at rank #25,282, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
Companies ranked near Sonos
By rank, the assignees closest to #25,282 in granted patent volume.
- Sonata Scientific LLC #25,278 · 11 patents
- Sonics, Inc. #25,279 · 11 patents
- Sonim Technologies, Inc. #25,280 · 11 patents
- Sonivie Ltd. #25,281 · 11 patents
- Sound Devices LLC #25,283 · 11 patents
- Spatial Cam LLC #25,284 · 11 patents
- Spawnt Private S.à.r.l. #25,285 · 11 patents
- Spectricity #25,286 · 11 patents
Leaders in H04B (Transmission)
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Sonos's primary technology class.
- Qualcomm Incorporated 6,670 in class
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4,632 in class
- LG Electronics Inc. 3,654 in class
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 3,555 in class
- Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) 3,146 in class
- Apple Inc. 2,286 in class
- Intel Corporation 1,705 in class
- Sony Group Corporation 1,475 in class
Sonos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Grants by year
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
View data table
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 9.1% |
| 2022 | 1 | 9.1% |
| 2023 | 4 | 36.4% |
| 2024 | 3 | 27.3% |
| 2025partial year | 2 | 18.2% |
Which technologies does Sonos Experience Limited patent most?
Top 8 of 8 technology areas
Data Source
USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025
What to do with this data
Sonos Experience Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.
- Sonos Experience Limited's lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
- Ranked #25,260 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
- Compare Sonos Experience Limited against Sonata Scientific LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
- Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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.
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.