Where does Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. ranks #20,503 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 17.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Q: How is the Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 10 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: G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tencent ranks #20,503 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,503
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20503 · Foreign Corporation #20,503 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,503/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Telit Cinterion…
CPC-FOCUS G10L · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Telit Cinterion Deutschland 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 Tencent’s 51.1 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 9.4 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 11.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tencent Music… · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tencent's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (top 12% 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 Tencent?

Each dot is one of Tencent’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). Tencent’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tencent's grants concentrate

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Tencent sits between Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH and The BIG O, LLC.

Tencent's three-year grant acceleration

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. shows 11 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.

Telit Cinterion D…

14
Tempus AI

14
Ten Cate Thiolon…

14
Tenax Energy Solu…

14
Teraoka Seiko

14
Terex South Dakota

14
The Azek Group

14
The BIG O

14
Tencent Music Ent… ◀

14

What this shows Tencent holds 14 patents at rank #20,528, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tencent

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,528 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech Synthesis)

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

Tencent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	7.1%
2023	2	14.3%
2024	9	64.3%
2025partial year	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. patent most?

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

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 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G10L (Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10L
Ranked #20,503 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. against Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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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