Where does Rodenstock GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rodenstock GMBH ranks #7,070 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 Rodenstock GMBH hold?

Rodenstock GMBH holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Rodenstock GMBH's Innovation Score?

Rodenstock GMBH has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Rodenstock GMBH focus on?

Rodenstock GMBH's top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 34 patents, ranking #24 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Rodenstock GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rodenstock GMBH's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Rodenstock GMBH's patents?

Rodenstock GMBH's patents average 16.4 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 Rodenstock GMBH 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

Rodenstock GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 21 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: G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rodenstock ranks #7,070 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,070
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7070 · Foreign Corporation #7,070 · 47 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,070/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Qualys
CPC-FOCUS G02C · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Qualys, 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 Rodenstock’s 42.5 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 13.4 pts (32%) Velocity 3.1 pts (7%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cummins Intellectual… · near

43
Deep Isolation · near

43
Ping Identity · near

43
Rodenstock · this assignee

43
Ultratech · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rodenstock's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Rodenstock?

Each dot is one of Rodenstock’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). Rodenstock’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rodenstock's grants concentrate

Rodenstock GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 72.3% of grants classified under G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Rodenstock sits between Qualys, Inc. and SAP AG.

Rodenstock's three-year grant acceleration

Rodenstock GMBH shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Qualys

47
Repsol

47
Rion

47
Roche Innovation…

47
Racing Optics

47
Samsung EletrÔNIC…

47
Sanhua (Hangzhou)…

47
SAP

47
Rodenstock ◀

47

What this shows Rodenstock holds 47 patents at rank #7,068, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rodenstock

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,068 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rodenstock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02C (Spectacles), Rodenstock ranks #24 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Ping Identity Corporation 43 Ultratech 43 Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc. 43 Deep Isolation, Inc. 43

Rodenstock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Rodenstock GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	19.1%
2016	2	4.3%
2017	4	8.5%
2018	6	12.8%
2019	8	17.0%
2020	6	12.8%
2021	1	2.1%
2022	2	4.3%
2023	2	4.3%
2024	3	6.4%
2025partial year	4	8.5%

Which technologies does Rodenstock GMBH patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 34

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 14

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 6

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 4

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Rodenstock GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rodenstock GMBH's lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 72.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #7,070 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rodenstock GMBH against Qualys, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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

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.