Where does R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company ranks #4,531 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 R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company hold?

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company holds 78 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's Innovation Score?

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company has an Innovation Score of 51.1 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company focus on?

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals) with 24 patents, ranking #38 of 860 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's recent grant velocity is -76% 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 R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's patents?

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's patents average 19.4 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 R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company 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 US Corporation

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 78 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, R. ranks #4,531 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 78 patents across 40 technology areas.

#4,531
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4531 · US Corporation #4,531 · 78 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 78 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,531/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Omix-ada
CPC-WIDE G09F · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Omix-ada, 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 R.’s 51.1 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 15.1 pts (29%) Velocity 2.0 pts (4%) Breadth 22.4 pts (44%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allstate Solutions… · near

51
R R Donnelley & Sons · this assignee

51
Standard Lifters · near

51
TI Automotive… · near

51
Traxxas · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows R.'s Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (top 12% 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 R.?

Each dot is one of R.’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). R.’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where R.'s grants concentrate

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, R. sits between Omix-ada, Inc. and Teledyne Instruments, Inc..

R.'s three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company moved from 20 to 6 grants (0.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Omix-ada

78
Osaka Gas

78
Peltbeam

78
Phoseon Technology

78
Shenzhen Verdewel…

78
Sifive

78
Signal Pharmaceut…

78
Teledyne Instrume…

78
R R Donnelley & S… ◀

78

What this shows R. holds 78 patents at rank #4,531, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near R

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,531 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for R, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09F (Displaying), R ranks #38 of 860 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Standard Lifters, Inc. 51 Traxxas, L.P. 51 Allstate Solutions Private Limited 51 TI Automotive (Fuldabrück) GmbH 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Magseis FF LLC 19.4 avg Metrologic Instruments, Inc. 19.4 avg Illuscio, Inc. 19.4 avg Canon U.S.A., Inc. 19.4 avg

R.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	15.4%
2016	16	20.5%
2017	13	16.7%
2018	11	14.1%
2019	11	14.1%
2020	7	9.0%
2021	2	2.6%
2022	3	3.8%
2023	3	3.8%

Which technologies does R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 24

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 6

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 6

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 6

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 6

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 6

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

Top 15 of 40 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

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company's lead technology class is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09F
Ranked #4,531 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company against Omix-ada, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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

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