Where does RB Distribution, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), RB Distribution, Inc. ranks #3,824 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 RB Distribution, Inc. hold?

RB Distribution, Inc. holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is RB Distribution, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

RB Distribution, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.3 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is RB Distribution, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

RB Distribution, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +32% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for RB Distribution, Inc.'s patents?

RB Distribution, Inc.'s patents average 7.4 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 RB Distribution, Inc. 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

RB Distribution, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does RB Distribution, Inc. focus on?

RB Distribution, Inc.'s top technology area is F01M (Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 39 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: F01M (Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, RB ranks #3,824 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 39 technology areas.

#3,824
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.3/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: +32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3824 · US Corporation #3,824 · 95 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,824/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Montblanc-Simplo
CPC-FOCUS F01M · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Montblanc-Simplo GmbH (±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
Chunghwa Picture Tubes · near

46
Crosman · near

46
Helmholtz Zentrum… · near

46
RB Distribution · this assignee

46
Ubiquiti · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows RB's Innovation Score is 46.3/100 (top 21% 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 RB's grants concentrate

RB Distribution, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 10.5% of grants classified under F01M (Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, RB sits between Montblanc-Simplo GmbH and Shenzhen Skyworth-rgb Electronic Co., Ltd..

RB's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, RB Distribution, Inc. moved from 33 to 20 grants (0.61x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Montblanc-simplo

95
Paramount BED

95
Pioneer Surgical…

95
Polaris Wireless

95
Raven Industries

95
Ribbon Communicat…

95
S P C M

95
Shenzhen Skyworth…

95
RB Distribution ◀

95

What this shows RB holds 95 patents at rank #3,823, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RB

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,823 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01M (Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Crosman Corporation 46 Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) 46 Ubiquiti Inc. 46 Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.4 here).

Nanjing University OF Posts AND Telecommunications 7.4 avg Volvo Lastvagnar AB 7.4 avg Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 7.4 avg Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH 7.4 avg

RB's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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RB Distribution, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.2%
2016	10	10.5%
2017	7	7.4%
2018	5	5.3%
2019	8	8.4%
2020	15	15.8%
2021	10	10.5%
2022	6	6.3%
2023	7	7.4%
2024	7	7.4%
2025partial year	16	16.8%

Which technologies does RB Distribution, Inc. patent most?

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 10

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 7

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 6

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 5

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

F16H - Gearing 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 3

Top 15 of 39 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,824

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.3 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

RB Distribution, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

RB Distribution, Inc.'s lead technology class is F01M (Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating), 10.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01M
Ranked #3,824 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare RB Distribution, Inc. against Montblanc-Simplo GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.3/100 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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