Where does Zound Industries International AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zound Industries International AB ranks #4,748 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 Zound Industries International AB hold?

Zound Industries International AB holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Zound Industries International AB's Innovation Score?

Zound Industries International AB has an Innovation Score of 36.5 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zound Industries International AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zound Industries International AB's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Zound Industries International AB's patents?

Zound Industries International AB's patents average 4.8 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 Zound Industries International AB 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

Zound Industries International AB

Q: What technology areas does Zound Industries International AB focus on?

Zound Industries International AB's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 17 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 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, Zound ranks #4,748 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 10 technology areas.

#4,748
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.5/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4748 · Foreign Corporation #4,748 · 74 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,748/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Victor Equipment
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Victor Equipment Company (±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
Blue Belt · near

37
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

37
Premier Coil Solutions · near

37
Universitaetskliniku… · near

37
Zound Industries… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zound's Innovation Score is 36.5/100 (top 46% 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 Zound's grants concentrate

Zound Industries International AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 23% 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 2018 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Zound sits between Victor Equipment Company and BitSight Technologies, Inc..

Zound's three-year grant acceleration

Zound Industries International AB shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Victor Equipment

74
WM Intellectual P…

74
Wuhan Xinxin Semi…

74
Yachiyo Industry

74
Zound Industries… ◀

74
Aware

73
Actelion Pharmace…

73
Blancpain

73
Bitsight

73

What this shows Zound holds 74 patents at rank #4,748, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zound

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,748 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zound, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Blue Belt Technologies, Inc. 37 Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg 37 Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. KG, Coburg 37 Premier Coil Solutions, Inc. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.8 here).

Hankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd. 4.8 avg Hgci, Inc. 4.8 avg Scosche Industries, Inc. 4.8 avg Innovelis, Inc. 4.8 avg

Zound's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Zound Industries International AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.8%
2016	6	8.1%
2017	9	12.2%
2018	19	25.7%
2019	9	12.2%
2020	4	5.4%
2021	2	2.7%
2022	5	6.8%
2023	1	1.4%
2024	11	14.9%
2025partial year	3	4.1%

Which technologies does Zound Industries International AB patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 17

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 2

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 1

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,748

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Zound Industries International AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zound Industries International AB's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 23% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #4,748 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zound Industries International AB against Victor Equipment Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.5/100 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

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