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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sonos, Inc. ranks #210 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 Sonos, Inc. hold?

Sonos, Inc. holds 1,911 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Sonos, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sonos, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 69.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sonos, Inc. focus on?

Sonos, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,255 patents, ranking #61 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sonos, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +41% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Sonos, Inc.'s patents?

Sonos, 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 Sonos, 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

Sonos, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,911 granted patents across 56 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sonos ranks #210 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,911 patents across 56 technology areas.

#210
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.4/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R210 · US Corporation #210 · 1,911 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #210/49,997
NEAR-PEER Waymo
CPC-WIDE G06F · 56 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waymo LLC (±10 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 69.4 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 26.1 pts (38%) Velocity 6.9 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Soitec · near

69
Sonos · this assignee

69
Hyundai Transys · near

69
Hewlett Packard… · near

69
Zoom Video Communica… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sonos's Innovation Score is 69.4/100 (top 1% 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 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sonos's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sonos, Inc. received 1,026 grants versus 729 in 2015–2019 (+41% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 223 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 66. Lead class G06F accounts for 65.7% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Magic Leap, Inc. (#206) and Tsinghua University (#214).

Sonos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sonos, Inc. moved from 599 to 618 grants (1.03x 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 #1,100. See the growth leaderboard.

Magic Leap

1,959
Facebook

1,950
Casio Computer

1,949
Mazda Motor

1,922
Sonos ◀

1,911
Waymo

1,901
Bridgestone

1,895
L'oreal

1,890
Tsinghua Universi…

1,881

What this shows Sonos holds 1,911 patents at rank #210, 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 #210 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sonos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Sonos ranks #61 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Soitec 69 Hyundai Transys Inc. 69 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP 69 Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

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

Cohesity, Inc. 19.0 avg Adtran, Inc. 19.0 avg Atlassian, Inc. 19.0 avg Heraeus Medical GmbH 19.0 avg

Sonos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Sonos, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	66	3.5%
2016	108	5.7%
2017	163	8.5%
2018	201	10.5%
2019	191	10.0%
2020	209	10.9%
2021	199	10.4%
2022	174	9.1%
2023	223	11.7%
2024	221	11.6%
2025partial year	156	8.2%

Which technologies does Sonos, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,255

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1,051

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 635

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 630

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 373

H03G - Control OF Amplification 290

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 271

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 253

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 235

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 207

H04H - Broadcast Communication 113

H04J - Multiplex Communication 79

H04B - Transmission 79

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 54

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 38

Top 15 of 56 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

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

Sonos, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 65.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #210 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sonos, Inc. against Magic Leap, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.4/100 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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