Where does Rockwool International A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rockwool International A/S ranks #3,747 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 Rockwool International A/S hold?

Rockwool International A/S holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 68 technology areas.

What is Rockwool International A/S's Innovation Score?

Rockwool International A/S has an Innovation Score of 52.5 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rockwool International A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rockwool International A/S's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Rockwool International A/S's patents?

Rockwool International A/S's patents average 14.4 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 Rockwool International A/S 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

Rockwool International A/S

Q: What technology areas does Rockwool International A/S focus on?

Rockwool International A/S's top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 32 patents, ranking #15 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 68 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 68 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rockwool ranks #3,747 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 68 technology areas.

#3,747
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.5/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3747 · Foreign Corporation #3,747 · 97 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,747/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Novell
CPC-WIDE E04B · 68 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Novell, 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 Rockwool’s 52.5 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 15.8 pts (30%) Velocity 3.0 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Enseo · near

53
Puma SE · near

53
Rockwool Internation… · this assignee

53
Sunmodo · near

53
Xintec · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rockwool's Innovation Score is 52.5/100 (top 10% 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 Rockwool?

Each dot is one of Rockwool’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). Rockwool’s own 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Rockwool's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rockwool International A/S received 44 grants versus 53 in 2015–2019 (-17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class E04B accounts for 33% of the portfolio across 68 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Novell, Inc. (#3,742) and Sealed Air Corporation (US) (#3,750).

Rockwool's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rockwool International A/S moved from 35 to 16 grants (0.46x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Novell

97
Orcam

97
Packsize

97
Passivelogic

97
Shin TAI Spurt Wa…

97
ST Jude Medical I…

97
Straumann Holding

97
Sealed Air (US)

97
Rockwool Internat… ◀

97

What this shows Rockwool holds 97 patents at rank #3,746, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rockwool

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rockwool, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04B (General Building Constructions), Rockwool ranks #15 of 849 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Xintec Inc. 53 Enseo, LLC 53 Puma SE 53 Sunmodo Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

North Inc. 14.4 avg UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ 14.4 avg Flexenable Limited 14.4 avg Bissell Inc. 14.4 avg

Rockwool's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Rockwool International A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	13.4%
2016	10	10.3%
2017	11	11.3%
2018	12	12.4%
2019	7	7.2%
2020	7	7.2%
2021	21	21.6%
2022	12	12.4%
2023	3	3.1%
2024	1	1.0%

Which technologies does Rockwool International A/S patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 32

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 14

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 14

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 13

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 11

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 10

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 10

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 9

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

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 7

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 6

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 5

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 5

Top 15 of 68 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

Rockwool International A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rockwool International A/S's lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 33% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #3,747 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rockwool International A/S against Novell, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.5/100 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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