Where does Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC ranks #25,093 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 Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC hold?

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's Innovation Score?

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.1 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC focus on?

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 5 patents, ranking #2,173 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's patents?

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's patents average 18.2 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 Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC 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

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ricoh ranks #25,093 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#25,093
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.1/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25093 · US Corporation #25,093 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,093/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Republic of Korea…
CPC-NARROW H04N · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Republic of Korea (National Forensic Service Director Ministry of Public Administration and Security) (±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 Ricoh’s 30.1 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 8.6 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ricoh Production… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ricoh's Innovation Score is 30.1/100 (33rd percentile 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 Ricoh?

Each dot is one of Ricoh’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). Ricoh’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ricoh's grants concentrate

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ricoh sits between Republic of Korea (National Forensic Service Director Ministry of Public Administration and Security) and Rinco Ultrasonics USA, Inc..

Republic of Korea…

11
Revivicor

11
Rhodes Pharmaceut…

11
Ribon Therapeutics

11
Ridgeline

11
Righteye

11
Rillito River Sol…

11
Rinco Ultrasonics…

11
Ricoh Production… ◀

11

What this shows Ricoh holds 11 patents at rank #25,086, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ricoh

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,086 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Ricoh's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	90.9%
2016	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #25,093 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC against Republic of Korea (National Forensic Service Director Ministry of Public Administration and Security), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.1/100 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

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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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