Where does Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen ranks #4,789 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's recent grant velocity is +34% 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 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's patents?

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's patents average 14.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen

Q: How many patents does Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen hold?

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

Q: What is Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's Innovation Score?

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: How is the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen 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 PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 85 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: C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rheinisch-westfälische ranks #4,789 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 85 technology areas.

#4,789
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4789 · Foreign Corporation #4,789 · 73 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,789/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pride Mobility…
CPC-WIDE C07C · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pride Mobility Products Corporation (±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 Rheinisch-westfälische’s 56.3 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 14.9 pts (26%) Velocity 7.6 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mojo Mobility · near

56
Newfrey · near

56
Rheinisch-Westfälisc… · this assignee

56
Technische Universit… · near

56
University of New… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rheinisch-westfälische's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 Rheinisch-westfälische?

Each dot is one of Rheinisch-westfälische’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). Rheinisch-westfälische’s own 14.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Rheinisch-westfälische's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen received 39 grants versus 29 in 2015–2019 (+34% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 10 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 3. Lead class C07C accounts for 11% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pride Mobility Products Corporation (#4,785) and Stoneage, Inc. (#4,793).

Rheinisch-westfälische's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen moved from 22 to 25 grants (1.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Pride Mobility Pr…

73
Prognosys Bioscie…

73
Qingdao Haier Dru…

73
Rackspace US

73
Sigma Computing

73
Somfy SAS

73
SRC

73
Stoneage

73
Rheinisch-westfäl… ◀

73

What this shows Rheinisch-Westfälische holds 73 patents at rank #4,789, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rheinisch-Westfälische

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,789 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rheinisch-Westfälische's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rheinisch-Westfälische, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), Rheinisch-Westfälische ranks #559 of 2,691 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Technische Universiteit Delft 56 University of New Hempshire 56 Mojo Mobility Inc. 56 Newfrey LLC 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

Areva NP 14.7 avg Innocom Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 14.7 avg Silicon Works Co., Ltd. 14.7 avg Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 14.7 avg

Rheinisch-westfälische's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.6%
2016	3	4.1%
2017	6	8.2%
2018	5	6.8%
2019	8	11.0%
2020	10	13.7%
2021	4	5.5%
2022	5	6.8%
2023	10	13.7%
2024	10	13.7%
2025partial year	5	6.8%

Which technologies does Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen patent most?

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 8

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 7

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 6

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

C07K - Peptides 5

C12Y - Enzymes 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 4

Top 15 of 85 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

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen's lead technology class is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), 11% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07C
Ranked #4,789 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen against Pride Mobility Products Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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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