Where does Waves Audio Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Waves Audio Ltd. ranks #17,359 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 Waves Audio Ltd. hold?

Waves Audio Ltd. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Waves Audio Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Waves Audio Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.1 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Waves Audio Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Waves Audio Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +1400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Waves Audio Ltd.'s patents?

Waves Audio Ltd.'s patents average 20.4 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 Waves Audio 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Waves Audio Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Waves Audio Ltd. focus on?

Waves Audio Ltd.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 11 patents, ranking #250 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 17 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, Waves ranks #17,359 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 17 technology areas.

#17,359
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.1/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +1400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17359 · Foreign Corporation #17,359 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,359/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Watershed Geosynthet…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Watershed Geosynthetics 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 Waves’s 55.1 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 10.0 pts (18%) Velocity 18.3 pts (33%) Breadth 14.6 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bank of Montreal · near

55
Casco Signal · near

55
Ecolink Intelligent… · near

55
Enplas · near

55
Waves Audio · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Waves's Innovation Score is 55.1/100 (top 7% 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 Waves?

Each dot is one of Waves’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). Waves’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Waves's grants concentrate

Waves Audio Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 64.7% 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 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Waves sits between Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik and Xoma (US) LLC.

Waves's three-year grant acceleration

Waves Audio Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Wezag Werkzeugfab…

17
Wgrs Licensing

17
Woongjin Thinkbig

17
Watershed Geosynt…

17
Weigh Safe

17
Wild West Investm…

17
Worktools

17
Xoma (US)

17
Waves Audio ◀

17

What this shows Waves holds 17 patents at rank #17,361, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Waves

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,361 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Waves, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Waves ranks #250 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Casco Signal Ltd. 55 Bank of Montreal 55 Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc. 55 Enplas Corporation 55

Waves's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Waves Audio Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	5.9%
2020	2	11.8%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	3	17.6%
2023	5	29.4%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Waves Audio Ltd. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 11

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

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 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Waves Audio Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Waves Audio Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #17,359 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Waves Audio Ltd. against Wezag GMBH Werkzeugfabrik, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.1/100 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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