Where does Research Triangle Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Research Triangle Institute ranks #2,884 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 Research Triangle Institute hold?

Research Triangle Institute holds 133 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 89 technology areas.

What is Research Triangle Institute's Innovation Score?

Research Triangle Institute has an Innovation Score of 59.9 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Research Triangle Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Research Triangle Institute's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Research Triangle Institute's patents?

Research Triangle Institute's patents average 18.8 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 Research Triangle Institute 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

Research Triangle Institute

Q: What technology areas does Research Triangle Institute focus on?

Research Triangle Institute's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 34 patents. Grants appear in 89 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 133 granted patents across 89 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Research ranks #2,884 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 133 patents across 89 technology areas.

#2,884
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.9/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2884 · Foreign Corporation #2,884 · 133 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 133 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,884/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hisense Visual…
CPC-WIDE A61P · 89 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (±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
Emerson Climate · near

60
PPC Broadband · near

60
Kemira OYJ · near

60
Mississippi State… · near

60
Research Triangle… · this assignee

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Research's Innovation Score is 59.9/100 (top 4% 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.

How Research's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Research Triangle Institute received 56 grants versus 69 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 16 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 4. Lead class A61P accounts for 25.6% of the portfolio across 89 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (#2,880) and Creative Plastic Concepts, LLC (#2,888).

Research's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Research Triangle Institute moved from 36 to 36 grants (1.00x 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 #1,172. See the growth leaderboard.

Hisense Visual Te…

133
Liberty Hardware…

133
Novocure

133
Powertech Technol…

133
Research Triangle… ◀

133
Arcelik Anonim Si…

132
Bottega Veneta S…

132
Cambricon

132
Creative Plastic…

132

What this shows Research holds 133 patents at rank #2,884, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Research

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,884 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Kemira OYJ 60 Mississippi State University 60 Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. 60 PPC Broadband, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Movandi Corporation 18.8 avg Essential Products, Inc. 18.8 avg Maplebear Inc. 18.8 avg Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. 18.8 avg

Research's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Research Triangle Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	9.0%
2016	14	10.5%
2017	14	10.5%
2018	13	9.8%
2019	16	12.0%
2020	4	3.0%
2021	16	12.0%
2022	13	9.8%
2023	16	12.0%
2024	7	5.3%
2025partial year	8	6.0%

Which technologies does Research Triangle Institute patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 34

B01D - Separation 33

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 29

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 25

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 25

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 15

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 14

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

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 8

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 8

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 8

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 7

Top 15 of 89 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,884

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.9 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

Research Triangle Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Research Triangle Institute's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 25.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #2,884 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Research Triangle Institute against Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.9/100 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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