Is Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations's recent grant velocity is -92% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations

Q: Where does Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations ranks #21,693 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations 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 - 13 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rhode ranks #21,693 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 25 technology areas.

#21,693
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21693 · US Corporation #21,693 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,693/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Relypsa
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 25 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Relypsa, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canadian National Ra… · near

37
BHA Altair · near

37
Genelec Oy · near

37
Rhode Island Board O… · this assignee

37
Sunshine Guojian Pha… · near

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Rhode's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 Rhode's grants concentrate

Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 23.1% of grants classified under G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Rhode sits between Relypsa, Inc. and Robroy Industries—texas, Llc.

Relypsa

13
Renovia

13
Respiratory Motion

13
Retailnext

13
Richards Mfg

13
Robart

13
Robodiagnostics

13
Robroy Industries…

13
Rhode Island Boar… ◀

13

What this shows Rhode holds 13 patents at rank #21,699, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rhode

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,699 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Sunshine Guojian Pharmaceutical (shanghai) Co., Ltd. 37 BHA Altair. Llc 37 Genelec Oy 37 Canadian National Railway Company 37

Rhode's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	5	38.5%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Rhode Island Board Of Education, State Of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 3

H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS 2

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 1

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 1

G01H - MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OR ULTRASONIC, SONIC OR INFRASONIC WAVES 1

H10N - ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES 1

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY 1

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 1

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 1

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,693

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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