Where does Rockwell Automation, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rockwell Automation, Inc. ranks #7,916 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 Rockwell Automation, Inc. hold?

Rockwell Automation, Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Rockwell Automation, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rockwell Automation, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rockwell Automation, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Rockwell Automation, Inc.'s patents?

Rockwell Automation, Inc.'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 Rockwell Automation, Inc. 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

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Rockwell Automation, Inc. focus on?

Rockwell Automation, Inc.'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 16 patents, ranking #119 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Rockwell ranks #7,916 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 24 technology areas.

#7,916
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7916 · US Corporation #7,916 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,916/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Quantum Machines
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Quantum Machines (±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 Rockwell’s 43.8 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 12.9 pts (30%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 17.3 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arsenal Medical · near

44
Integrated Silicon… · near

44
Intelligent… · near

44
Rockwell Automation · this assignee

44
Seerstone · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rockwell's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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 Rockwell?

Each dot is one of Rockwell’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). Rockwell’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rockwell's grants concentrate

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 39% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Rockwell sits between Quantum Machines and Sciocs Company Limited.

Rockwell's three-year grant acceleration

Rockwell Automation, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Quantum Machines

41
Realnetworks

41
Rad Power Bikes

41
Reel Power Licens…

41
Rowan University

41
Safran Power Units

41
Sasol Technology…

41
Sciocs

41
Rockwell Automati… ◀

41

What this shows Rockwell holds 41 patents at rank #7,916, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rockwell

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,916 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rockwell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Rockwell ranks #119 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Arsenal Medical, Inc. 44 Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. 44 Intelligent Agricultural Solutions LLC 44 Seerstone, LLC 44

Rockwell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Rockwell Automation, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	12.2%
2016	5	12.2%
2017	4	9.8%
2018	2	4.9%
2019	9	22.0%
2020	8	19.5%
2021	2	4.9%
2022	3	7.3%
2023	2	4.9%
2024	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Rockwell Automation, Inc. patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 5

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

A63G - MERRY-GO-ROUNDS; SWINGS; ROCKING-HORSES; CHUTES; SWITCHBACKS; Similar Devices FOR Public Amusement 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

Top 15 of 24 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

Rockwell Automation, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rockwell Automation, Inc.'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% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #7,916 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rockwell Automation, Inc. against Quantum Machines, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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.