Where does Rockley Photonics Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rockley Photonics Limited ranks #2,212 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 Rockley Photonics Limited hold?

Rockley Photonics Limited holds 178 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Rockley Photonics Limited's Innovation Score?

Rockley Photonics Limited has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Rockley Photonics Limited focus on?

Rockley Photonics Limited's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 103 patents, ranking #159 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Rockley Photonics Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rockley Photonics Limited's recent grant velocity is +192% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Rockley Photonics Limited's patents?

Rockley Photonics Limited's patents average 19.1 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 Rockley Photonics Limited 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

Rockley Photonics Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 178 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rockley ranks #2,212 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 178 patents across 40 technology areas.

#2,212
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +192%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2212 · Foreign Corporation #2,212 · 178 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 178 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,212/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Guangdong University…
CPC-WIDE G02B · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +192% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Guangdong University OF Technology (±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 Rockley’s 57.3 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 17.9 pts (31%) Velocity 5.5 pts (10%) Breadth 22.4 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advics · near

57
Cooper · near

57
Rockley Photonics · this assignee

57
Shiseido · near

57
The University… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rockley's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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 Rockley?

Each dot is one of Rockley’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). Rockley’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rockley's grants concentrate

Rockley Photonics Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 57.9% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (35 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2016. By volume, Rockley sits between Guangdong University OF Technology and Uacj Corporation.

Rockley's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rockley Photonics Limited moved from 71 to 59 grants (0.83x 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 #1,715. See the growth leaderboard.

Guangdong Univers…

178
Korea Research In…

178
Morgan Stanley Se…

178
Oxford Nanopore

178
TE Connectivity S…

178
Texas Tech Univer…

178
Topcon Positionin…

178
Uacj

178
Rockley Photonics ◀

178

What this shows Rockley holds 178 patents at rank #2,212, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rockley

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,212 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rockley, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Rockley ranks #159 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Shiseido Company, Limited 57 Cooper Technologies Company 57 The University Court of the University of Edinburgh 57 Advics Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Ceraloc Innovation AB 19.1 avg Viavi Solutions Inc. 19.1 avg Bytedance Inc. 19.1 avg Anthony, Inc. 19.1 avg

Rockley's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Rockley Photonics Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	3.4%
2017	7	3.9%
2018	10	5.6%
2019	16	9.0%
2020	20	11.2%
2021	35	19.7%
2022	17	9.6%
2023	15	8.4%
2024	27	15.2%
2025partial year	25	14.0%

Which technologies does Rockley Photonics Limited patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 103

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 60

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 31

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 30

H04B - Transmission 22

H04Q - Selecting 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 13

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 8

H04J - Multiplex Communication 7

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

Top 15 of 40 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

Rockley Photonics Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rockley Photonics Limited's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #2,212 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rockley Photonics Limited against Guangdong University OF Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.