Where does Starkey Laboratories, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Starkey Laboratories, Inc. ranks #797 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 Starkey Laboratories, Inc. hold?

Starkey Laboratories, Inc. holds 577 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Starkey Laboratories, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.4 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%).

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

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -1% 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 Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s patents?

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s patents average 20.0 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 Starkey Laboratories, 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

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

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

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 550 patents, ranking #6 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 577 granted patents across 61 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: 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, Starkey ranks #797 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 577 patents across 61 technology areas.

#797
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.4/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: -1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R797 · US Corporation #797 · 577 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 577 grants
TOP-DECILE #797/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Evonik Operations
CPC-WIDE H04R · 61 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Evonik Operations GmbH (±1 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 Starkey’s 66.4 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 22.0 pts (33%) Velocity 7.4 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lenovo (BEIJING) · near

66
Starkey Laboratories · this assignee

66
Abiomed · near

66
Disney Enterprises · near

66
Raytheon · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Starkey's Innovation Score is 66.4/100 (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 Starkey?

Each dot is one of Starkey’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). Starkey’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Starkey's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Starkey Laboratories, Inc. received 261 grants versus 263 in 2015–2019 (-1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 65 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 42. Lead class H04R accounts for 95.3% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Compal Electronics, Inc. (#793) and THE Texas A&M University System (#801).

Starkey's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Starkey Laboratories, Inc. moved from 151 to 168 grants (1.11x 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 #934. See the growth leaderboard.

Compal

580
Rohr

579
The Government of…

579
Evonik Operations

578
Starkey Laborator… ◀

577
King Abdulaziz Un…

576
Oshkosh

576
Stanley Electric

575
THE Texas A&M Uni…

575

What this shows Starkey holds 577 patents at rank #797, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Starkey

By rank, the assignees closest to #797 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Starkey, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Starkey ranks #6 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited 66 Disney Enterprises, Inc. 66 Raytheon Technologies Corporation 66 Abiomed, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation 20.0 avg Cortica Ltd. 20.0 avg PanPsy Technologies, LLC 20.0 avg Mapbox, Inc. 20.0 avg

Starkey's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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.

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Starkey Laboratories, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	57	9.9%
2016	58	10.1%
2017	46	8.0%
2018	44	7.6%
2019	58	10.1%
2020	51	8.8%
2021	42	7.3%
2022	45	7.8%
2023	58	10.1%
2024	65	11.3%
2025partial year	53	9.2%

Which technologies does Starkey Laboratories, Inc. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 550

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 65

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 64

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 52

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 47

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 42

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 41

H04B - Transmission 37

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 19

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 18

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 16

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 16

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 12

Top 15 of 61 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

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

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 95.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #797 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Starkey Laboratories, Inc. against Compal Electronics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.4/100 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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