Where does Rite-Hite Holding Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rite-Hite Holding Corporation ranks #2,280 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 Rite-Hite Holding Corporation hold?

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation holds 172 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 52 technology areas.

What is Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's Innovation Score?

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.5 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 Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's patents?

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's patents average 20.0 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 Rite-Hite Holding Corporation 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

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Rite-Hite Holding Corporation focus on?

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 68 patents, ranking #18 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 52 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 172 granted patents across 52 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rite-hite ranks #2,280 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 172 patents across 52 technology areas.

#2,280
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.5/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2280 · US Corporation #2,280 · 172 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 172 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,280/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cryptography Research
CPC-WIDE B65G · 52 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cryptography Research, 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 Rite-hite’s 61.5 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 17.8 pts (29%) Velocity 6.7 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Incyte · near

61
National Research… · near

61
Rite-Hite Holding · this assignee

61
Fameccanica Data S p A · near

61
Autel Robotics · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rite-hite's Innovation Score is 61.5/100 (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 Rite-hite?

Each dot is one of Rite-hite’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). Rite-hite’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Rite-hite's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rite-Hite Holding Corporation received 57 grants versus 106 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 10. Lead class B65G accounts for 39.5% of the portfolio across 52 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cryptography Research, Inc. (#2,276) and A10 Networks, Incorporated (#2,284).

Rite-hite's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rite-Hite Holding Corporation moved from 35 to 35 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 #1,194. See the growth leaderboard.

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172
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171

What this shows Rite-Hite holds 172 patents at rank #2,280, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rite-Hite

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,280 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rite-Hite's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rite-Hite, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Rite-Hite ranks #18 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

National Research Council of Canada 61 Incyte Corporation 61 Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. 61 Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Starkey Laboratories, Inc. 20.0 avg Cortica Ltd. 20.0 avg PanPsy Technologies, LLC 20.0 avg Mapbox, Inc. 20.0 avg

Rite-hite'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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Rite-Hite Holding Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	11.6%
2016	18	10.5%
2017	34	19.8%
2018	21	12.2%
2019	13	7.6%
2020	12	7.0%
2021	10	5.8%
2022	11	6.4%
2023	12	7.0%
2024	12	7.0%
2025partial year	9	5.2%

Which technologies does Rite-Hite Holding Corporation patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 68

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 28

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 25

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 16

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 13

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 12

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 10

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 9

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 8

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 8

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 7

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

Top 15 of 52 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

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rite-Hite Holding Corporation's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 39.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #2,280 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rite-Hite Holding Corporation against Cryptography Research, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.5/100 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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