Where does Zilltek Technology Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zilltek Technology Corp. ranks #23,725 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Zilltek Technology Corp. hold?

Zilltek Technology Corp. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Zilltek Technology Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Zilltek Technology Corp. has an Innovation Score of 27.5 out of 100 (top 76% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zilltek Technology Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zilltek Technology Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Zilltek Technology Corp.'s patents?

Zilltek Technology Corp.'s patents average 8.0 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 Zilltek Technology Corp. 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

Zilltek Technology Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Zilltek Technology Corp. focus on?

Zilltek Technology Corp.'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. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 10 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, Zilltek ranks #23,725 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 10 technology areas.

#23,725
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 76%
by Innovation Score (27.5/100): 8.0
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23725 · Foreign Corporation #23,725 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,725/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH ZHANGJIAGANG KANGDE…
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zhangjiagang Kangde XIN Optronics Material Co., Ltd. (±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
Zilltek Technology · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Zilltek's Innovation Score is 27.5/100 (top 76% 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 Zilltek's grants concentrate

Zilltek Technology Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 91.7% 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 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Zilltek sits between Zhangjiagang Kangde XIN Optronics Material Co., Ltd. and Zoomessence, Inc..

Zhangjiagang Kang…

12
Zhangzhou GO WIN…

12
Zhejiang Ausun Ph…

12
Zhejiang Haoda Sc…

12
ZIM Aircraft Seat…

12
Zkteco

12
ZOOM

12
Zoomessence

12
Zilltek Technology ◀

12

What this shows Zilltek holds 12 patents at rank #23,709, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zilltek

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,709 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Zilltek's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 76% higher than 24% of 50,000 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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Zilltek Technology Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2016	1	8.3%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Zilltek Technology Corp. patent most?

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 11

G10L - SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING 4

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

Y02D - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE 1

H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL 1

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 1

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 1

H03K - PULSE TECHNIQUE 1

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,725

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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