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Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Class A (DLB)

NYSE: DLB · Patent Owners & Lessors · San Francisco, CA · filing with the SEC since 2004
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

2,645 patents granted to the 4 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 Dolby Laboratories, Inc.Class A’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
2,645
2,534 utility, 80 design, 31 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
200
Against 190 in 2024 and 138 in 2023
Applications published
2,634
189 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its holding company, 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
Audio-visual technology526
Computer technology158
Digital communication45
Basic communication processes33
Optics32
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy10
Telecommunications9
Handling5
Other consumer goods3
Civil engineering2
Furniture, games2
Measurement1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
2,615 granted
2,416 published
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation its holding company
named as the applicant on its applications, in US; a holding company under the name Dolby Laboratories, Inc.. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA, printed in NL)
0 granted
212 published
Dolby Laboratories Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
30 granted
4 published
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
2 published
Names not counted (2)
Dolby International AB
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in SE. 981 granted and 926 published under it are not counted.
Dolby International AB
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in SE. 0 granted and 1,017 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,483Frequency domain multiplexing of spatial audio for multiple listener sweet spotsAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,289Intra prediction mode mapping method and device using the methodAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,513,090Timestamp smoothing to remove jitterDigital communicationDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,506,898Method and device for encoding and decoding image using motion vector resolution scalingAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,506,894Reshaper for learning based image/video codingAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 16, 202512,501,056Integrated image reshaping and video codingAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 16, 202512,501,055Methods and apparatuses of encoding/decoding intra prediction mode using candidate intra prediction modesAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 16, 202512,499,899Low-latency, low-frequency effects codecComputer technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 9, 202512,494,211Processing parametrically coded audioComputer technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 2, 202512,489,885Method for encoding/decoding an intra-picture prediction mode using two intra-prediction mode candidate, and apparatus using such a methodAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0392747INTER CODING USING DEEP LEARNING IN VIDEO COMPRESSIONAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392739SCALABLE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING COLOR MANAGEMENT COMPRISING VARYING LEVELS OF METADATAAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0392738SCALABLE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING COLOR MANAGEMENT COMPRISING VARYING LEVELS OF METADATAAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0391415ENCODING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS COMPRISING DOWNMIXING OF A PRIMARY AND TWO OR MORE SCALED NON-PRIMARY INPUT CHANNELSComputer technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 18, 20252025/0384612ENHANCEMENT OF TEXTURE AND ALPHA CHANNELS IN MULTIPLANE IMAGESComputer technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 11, 20252025/0380100METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING A HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS REPRESENTATIONAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Dec 4, 20252025/0373996PROCESSING OBJECT-BASED AUDIO SIGNALSAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Nov 27, 20252025/0365552BINAURAL SIGNAL POST-PROCESSINGAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Nov 27, 20252025/0363595IMAGE OPTIMIZATION IN MOBILE CAPTURE AND EDITING APPLICATIONSComputer technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
Nov 20, 20252025/0358583IMMERSIVE AUDIO FADINGAudio-visual technologyDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Audio-visual technology 236 · Computer technology 109 · Digital communication 12 · Optics 11 · Basic communication processes 9 · Other consumer goods 4.

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.

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