Where does Roland Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Roland Corporation ranks #1,703 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 Roland Corporation hold?

Roland Corporation holds 241 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Roland Corporation's Innovation Score?

Roland Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Roland Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Roland Corporation's recent grant velocity is +85% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Roland Corporation's patents?

Roland Corporation's patents average 12.1 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 Roland Corporation 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

Roland Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Roland Corporation focus on?

Roland Corporation's top technology area is G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store) with 128 patents. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 241 granted patents across 36 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: G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Roland ranks #1,703 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 241 patents across 36 technology areas.

#1,703
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1703 · Foreign Corporation #1,703 · 241 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 241 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,703/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dometic Sweden AB
CPC-FOCUS G10H · 36 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dometic Sweden AB (±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
Laitram L L C · near

61
Progress Rail Services · near

61
Roland · this assignee

61
Sumitomo Constructio… · near

61
Leica Geosystems · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Roland's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 Roland's grants concentrate

Roland Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 53.1% of grants classified under G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (46 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2018. By volume, Roland sits between Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC.

Roland's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Roland Corporation moved from 50 to 103 grants (2.06x 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 #199. See the growth leaderboard.

Shindengen Electr…

242
Stats Chippac

242
Dometic Sweden AB

241
Lextar

241
Sony Olympus Medi…

241
Southwire

241
Roland ◀

241
Arkray

240
Dana Heavy Vehicl…

240

What this shows Roland holds 241 patents at rank #1,703, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Roland

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,703 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Laitram, L.L.C. 61 Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. 61 Progress Rail Services Corporation 61 Leica Geosystems AG 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 12.1 avg Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. 12.1 avg WCM Industries, Inc. 12.1 avg FLSmidth A/S 12.1 avg

Roland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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

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.

View data table

Roland Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	12.0%
2016	12	5.0%
2017	14	5.8%
2018	6	2.5%
2019	14	5.8%
2020	14	5.8%
2021	22	9.1%
2022	20	8.3%
2023	46	19.1%
2024	37	15.4%
2025partial year	27	11.2%

Which technologies does Roland Corporation patent most?

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 128

G10D - Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 37

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G10C - Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 8

H03F - Amplifiers 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

H03G - Control OF Amplification 3

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,703

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.2 out of 100

View all rankings →

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Roland Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Roland Corporation's lead technology class is G10H (Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store), 53.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10H
Ranked #1,703 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Roland Corporation against Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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.