Where does Sound United, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sound United, LLC ranks #8,684 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 Sound United, LLC hold?

Sound United, LLC holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Sound United, LLC's Innovation Score?

Sound United, LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.2 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sound United, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sound United, LLC's recent grant velocity is +144% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sound United, LLC's patents?

Sound United, LLC's patents average 16.6 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 Sound United, LLC 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

Sound United, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Sound United, LLC focus on?

Sound United, LLC's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 33 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: 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, Sound ranks #8,684 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 8 technology areas.

#8,684
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.2/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +144%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8684 · US Corporation #8,684 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,684/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Satisloh
CPC-NARROW H04R · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +144% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Satisloh AG (±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
Carlson Pet Products · near

39
Rawlings Sporting… · near

39
Rexon Industrial · near

39
Sound United · this assignee

39
Triune Systems · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sound's Innovation Score is 39.2/100 (top 39% 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 Sound's grants concentrate

Sound United, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 89.2% 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 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Sound sits between Satisloh AG and TGW Logistics GmbH.

Sound's three-year grant acceleration

Sound United, LLC shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Satisloh

37
Schölly Fiberoptic

37
Sentinel Labs Isr…

37
Shenzhen Treasure…

37
Springfield

37
Taizhou Sukk Furn…

37
Tempur World

37
TGW Logistics

37
Sound United ◀

37

What this shows Sound holds 37 patents at rank #8,685, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sound

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,685 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc. 39 Triune Systems, LLC 39 Rexon Industrial Corp., Ltd. 39 Carlson Pet Products, Inc. 39

Sound's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sound United, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	10.8%
2018	1	2.7%
2019	4	10.8%
2020	5	13.5%
2021	4	10.8%
2022	2	5.4%
2023	5	13.5%
2024	6	16.2%
2025partial year	6	16.2%

Which technologies does Sound United, LLC patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 33

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 24

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 21

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,684

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.2 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

Sound United, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sound United, LLC's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 89.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #8,684 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sound United, LLC against Satisloh AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.2/100 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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