Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
163 patents granted to the 8 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Cerence Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
163
163 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
14
Against 14 in 2024 and 9 in 2023
Applications published
172
13 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
8
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology39
Transport5
Audio-visual technology4
Digital communication2
Furniture, games2
Control1
IT methods for management1
Telecommunications1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name8 counted
Voicebox Technologies Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
79 publishedCERENCE OPERATING COMPANY a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
22 publishedCerence Operating Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
58 publishedZI CORPORATION OF CANADA, INC. a subsidiary
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
5 publishedZI CORPORATION a subsidiary
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedZI CORPORATION OF CANADA, INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
3 publishedCerence its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedVOICEBOX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | 12,477,291 | Acoustic interference suppression through speaker-aware processing | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Nov 11, 2025 | 12,469,499 | Dynamic voice assistant system for a vehicle | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,437,014 | Proactive multi-modal automotive concierge | Transport | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,434,134 | Multimodal sensor fusion for building virtual gamepad for in-car games | Furniture, games | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 12,431,129 | Voice assistant error detection system | Computer technology | Cerence |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 12,431,019 | Proactive automotive assistant | Telecommunications | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Sep 2, 2025 | 12,406,663 | Routing of user commands across disparate ecosystems | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Aug 5, 2025 | 12,380,875 | Speech synthesis with foreign fragments | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| May 27, 2025 | 12,311,761 | Infotainment system having awareness of local dynamic features | Transport | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| May 20, 2025 | 12,308,026 | Vehicle avatar devices for interactive virtual assistant | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 18, 2025 | 2025/0292769 | Collaboration Between a Recommendation Engine and a Voice Assistant | Computer technology | Cerence Operating Company |
| Jul 10, 2025 | 2025/0225976 | Interactive Modification of Speaking Style of Synthesized Speech | Computer technology | Cerence Operating Company |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 2025/0210028 | IN-CABIN AUDIO FILTERING | Audio-visual technology | Cerence Operating Company |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 2025/0209284 | Federation of Domain-Specific Agents | Computer technology | Cerence Operating Company |
| Apr 17, 2025 | 2025/0124091 | Proactive Multi-Modal Automotive Concierge | Transport | Cerence Operating Company · patent 12,437,014 granted from it |
| Apr 17, 2025 | 2025/0123954 | Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry | Measurement | Cerence Operating Company |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 2025/0068384 | AUTOMOTIVE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH SPATIALLY-COGNIZANT APPLICATIONS THAT INTERACT WITH A SPEECH INTERFACE | Computer technology | Cerence Operating Company |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 2025/0061881 | INTERACTIVE KARAOKE APPLICATION FOR VEHICLES | Other consumer goods | Cerence Operating Company |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 2025/0058726 | VOICE ASSISTANT OPTIMIZATION DEPENDENT ON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY | Computer technology | CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY |
| Feb 6, 2025 | 2025/0046303 | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | Computer technology | Cerence Operating Company |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 20 · Audio-visual technology 4 · Transport 2 · IT methods for management 1 · Control 1 · Furniture, games 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.