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Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,078 granted patents across 103 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: G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rohde ranks #419 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,078 patents across 103 technology areas.

#419
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100)
16.5
avg claims per patent
+76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R419 · Foreign Corporation #419 · 1,078 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
  • TOP-DECILE #419/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fisher & Paykel…
  • CPC-WIDE G01R · 103 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +76% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited (±1 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Rohde

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Rohde's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (top 2% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

How Rohde's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG received 632 grants versus 359 in 2015–2019 (+76% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 169 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 41. Lead class G01R accounts for 43.2% of the portfolio across 103 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (#415) and Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (#423).

Rohde's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG moved from 442 to 314 grants (0.71x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,117. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Rohde's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Rohde holds 1,078 patents at rank #419, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Rohde

By rank, the assignees closest to #419 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01R (Measuring Electric Variables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rohde, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

United Parcel Service OF America, Inc. 64 TE Connectivity Germany GmbH 64 National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC 64 Posco Co., Ltd 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Hologic, Inc. 16.5 avg University of Iowa Research Foundation 16.5 avg SoftBank Corp. 16.5 avg Fingerprint Cards AB 16.5 avg

Rohde's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

050100150200 20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025 87
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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Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 41 3.8%
2016 46 4.3%
2017 63 5.8%
2018 85 7.9%
2019 124 11.5%
2020 169 15.7%
2021 149 13.8%
2022 130 12.1%
2023 104 9.6%
2024 80 7.4%
2025partial year 87 8.1%

Which technologies does Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

Top 15 of 103 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#419

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01R
  • Ranked #419 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG against The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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

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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

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.