Where does Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC ranks #19,094 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 Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC hold?

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's patents?

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's patents average 18.9 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 Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC 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

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC focus on?

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 14 patents, ranking #131 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rofin-sinar ranks #19,094 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#19,094
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19094 · US Corporation #19,094 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,094/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Riedel Communication…
CPC-FOCUS B23K · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Riedel Communications International GMBH (±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 Rofin-sinar’s 32.6 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 9.6 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rofin-sinar · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rofin-sinar's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (42nd percentile 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 Rofin-sinar?

Each dot is one of Rofin-sinar’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). Rofin-sinar’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rofin-sinar's grants concentrate

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 93.3% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Rofin-sinar sits between Riedel Communications International GMBH and Rt-filtertechnik GMBH.

Riedel Communicat…

15
Riegl Laser Measu…

15
Risc Networks

15
Risen (Suzhou) Ph…

15
Roger Vivier S P A

15
Rolic

15
RPS Group

15
Rt-filtertechnik

15
Rofin-sinar ◀

15

What this shows Rofin-sinar holds 15 patents at rank #19,071, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rofin-sinar

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,071 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rofin-sinar's primary technology class.

Rofin-sinar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	2	13.3%
2017	1	6.7%
2018	5	33.3%
2019	4	26.7%
2021	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 14

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

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 4

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 2

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

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC's lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 93.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #19,094 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rofin-sinar Technologies LLC against Riedel Communications International GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.6/100 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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