Where does Rockwell Automation Safety Ag rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rockwell Automation Safety Ag ranks #23,309 of 50,000 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 Safety Ag hold?

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Rockwell Automation Safety Ag's Innovation Score?

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag has an Innovation Score of 40.1 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rockwell Automation Safety Ag's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 Safety Ag's patents?

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag's patents average 18.1 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 Safety Ag 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

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag

Q: What technology areas does Rockwell Automation Safety Ag focus on?

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rockwell ranks #23,309 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 15 technology areas.

#23,309
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.1/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23309 · Foreign Corporation #23,309 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,309/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH ROBIN RADAR FACILITI…
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Robin Radar Facilities BV (±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
Cern—european Organi… · near

40
Hyalex Orthopaedics · near

40
Micro-controle—spect… · near

40
Rockwell Automation… · this assignee

40
Secretlab SG Pte · near

40
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Rockwell's Innovation Score is 40.1/100 (top 37% 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 Rockwell's grants concentrate

Rockwell Automation Safety Ag is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 58.3% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Rockwell sits between Robin Radar Facilities BV and RSEM, Limited Partnership.

Robin Radar Facil…

12
Robocath

12
ROCA Medical

12
Rocks OFF

12
Rocomp Global L L…

12
Romax Technology

12
Rotarex

12
RSEM Partnership

12
Rockwell Automati… ◀

12

What this shows Rockwell holds 12 patents at rank #23,280, 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 #23,280 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Secretlab SG Pte. Ltd. 40 Cern—european Organization FOR Nuclear Research 40 Hyalex Orthopaedics, Inc. 40 Micro-controle—spectra-physics 40

Rockwell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Rockwell Automation Safety Ag patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	33.3%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	4	33.3%
2023	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Rockwell Automation Safety Ag patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS 7

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 4

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 3

G01C - MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY 2

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 2

F16P - SAFETY DEVICES IN GENERAL; ; SAFETY DEVICES FOR PRESSES 2

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 1

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 1

H04B - TRANSMISSION 1

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,309

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

40.1 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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