Where does Zoom Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zoom Corporation ranks #23,729 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 Zoom Corporation hold?

Zoom Corporation holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Zoom Corporation's Innovation Score?

Zoom Corporation has an Innovation Score of 24.2 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zoom Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zoom Corporation's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Zoom Corporation's patents?

Zoom Corporation's patents average 6.2 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 Zoom Corporation 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

Zoom Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Zoom Corporation focus on?

Zoom Corporation's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 3 patents, ranking #635 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 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, Zoom ranks #23,729 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 8 technology areas.

#23,729
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.2/100): 6.2
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23729 · Foreign Corporation #23,729 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,729/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Zentera Systems
CPC-NARROW H04R · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zentera Systems, Inc. (±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 Zoom’s 24.2 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 8.9 pts (37%) Velocity 1.7 pts (7%) Breadth 10.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 3.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Zoom · this assignee

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What this shows Zoom's Innovation Score is 24.2/100 (14th percentile 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 Zoom?

Each dot is one of Zoom’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). Zoom’s own 6.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Zoom's grants concentrate

Zoom Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 25% 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 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Zoom sits between Zhejiang Haoda Science & Technology Co., Ltd and Zeus Industrial Products, Inc..

Zoom's three-year grant acceleration

Zoom Corporation shows 1 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.

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12

What this shows Zoom holds 12 patents at rank #23,712, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zoom

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,712 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Zoom's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% 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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Zoom Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	33.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Zoom Corporation patent most?

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

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 2

H03F - Amplifiers 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Zoom Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zoom Corporation's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #23,729 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zoom Corporation against Zhejiang Haoda Science & Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.