Where does Renishaw PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Renishaw PLC ranks #1,956 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 Renishaw PLC hold?

Renishaw PLC holds 206 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Renishaw PLC's Innovation Score?

Renishaw PLC has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Renishaw PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Renishaw PLC's recent grant velocity is +42% 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 Renishaw PLC's patents?

Renishaw PLC's patents average 19.5 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 Renishaw PLC 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

Renishaw PLC

Q: What technology areas does Renishaw PLC focus on?

Renishaw PLC's top technology area is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours) with 88 patents, ranking #15 of 2,030 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 206 granted patents across 59 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: G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Renishaw ranks #1,956 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 206 patents across 59 technology areas.

#1,956
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1956 · Foreign Corporation #1,956 · 206 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 206 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,956/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lululemon Athletica…
CPC-WIDE G01B · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lululemon Athletica Canada 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 Renishaw’s 61.2 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 18.4 pts (30%) Velocity 6.1 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fanuc · near

61
The George Washingto… · near

61
ams-OSRAM Internatio… · near

61
Renishaw · this assignee

61
THE University OF… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Renishaw's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 Renishaw?

Each dot is one of Renishaw’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). Renishaw’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Renishaw's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Renishaw PLC received 115 grants versus 81 in 2015–2019 (+42% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 28 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 10. Lead class G01B accounts for 42.7% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. (#1,952) and Airbnb, Inc. (#1,960).

Renishaw's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Renishaw PLC moved from 70 to 64 grants (0.91x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,430. See the growth leaderboard.

Lululemon Athleti…

206
Nissan Chemical

206
Noble Systems

206
Novellus Systems

206
Weber-stephen Pro…

206
Yanmar Power Tech…

206
Renishaw ◀

206
Asml Holding

205
Airbnb

205

What this shows Renishaw holds 206 patents at rank #1,956, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Renishaw

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,956 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01B (Measuring Length)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Renishaw, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01B (Measuring Length), Renishaw ranks #15 of 2,030 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

THE University OF Tokyo 61 ams-OSRAM International GmbH 61 The George Washington University 61 Fanuc Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Cummins Power Generation Inc. 19.5 avg Altec Industries, Inc. 19.5 avg ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. 19.5 avg Dirtt Environmental Solutions Ltd. 19.5 avg

Renishaw's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Renishaw PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	7.3%
2016	10	4.9%
2017	20	9.7%
2018	17	8.3%
2019	19	9.2%
2020	23	11.2%
2021	28	13.6%
2022	22	10.7%
2023	24	11.7%
2024	18	8.7%
2025partial year	10	4.9%

Which technologies does Renishaw PLC patent most?

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 88

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 59

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 58

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 52

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 49

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 30

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 29

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 20

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 7

Top 15 of 59 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

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Renishaw PLC's lead technology class is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours), 42.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01B
Ranked #1,956 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Renishaw PLC against Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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