Where does Roland DG Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Roland DG Corporation ranks #2,232 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 DG Corporation hold?

Roland DG Corporation holds 176 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Roland DG Corporation's Innovation Score?

Roland DG Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Roland DG Corporation's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 Roland DG Corporation's patents?

Roland DG Corporation's patents average 10.8 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 DG 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 DG Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Roland DG Corporation focus on?

Roland DG Corporation's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 121 patents, ranking #21 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 176 granted patents across 48 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Roland ranks #2,232 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 176 patents across 48 technology areas.

#2,232
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2232 · Foreign Corporation #2,232 · 176 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 176 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,232/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institute OF…
CPC-WIDE B41J · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan (±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 Roland’s 50.5 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 17.9 pts (35%) Velocity 1.6 pts (3%) Breadth 24.5 pts (49%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alpla Werke Alwin… · near

50
Deckers Outdoor · near

50
National Taiwan… · near

50
Roland DG · this assignee

50
Voestalpine Stahl · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Roland's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Roland?

Each dot is one of Roland’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). Roland’s own 10.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Roland's grants concentrate

Roland DG Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (61 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Roland sits between Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan and US Conec Ltd..

Roland's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Roland DG Corporation moved from 89 to 21 grants (0.24x 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 #3,060. See the growth leaderboard.

Institute OF Nucl…

176
Lisa Draexlmaier

176
Nokia of America

176
Panasonic Automot…

176
Rapiscan Systems

176
Toshiba Materials

176
Thermos L L C

176
US Conec

176
Roland DG ◀

176

What this shows Roland holds 176 patents at rank #2,231, 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 #2,231 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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). In B41J (Typewriters), Roland ranks #21 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Deckers Outdoor Corporation 50 National Taiwan Normal University 50 Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG 50 Voestalpine Stahl GmbH 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. 10.8 avg Sercomm Corporation 10.8 avg Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 10.8 avg Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 10.8 avg

Roland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Roland DG Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	3.4%
2016	16	9.1%
2017	12	6.8%
2018	25	14.2%
2019	61	34.7%
2020	14	8.0%
2021	14	8.0%
2022	4	2.3%
2023	9	5.1%
2024	8	4.5%
2025partial year	7	4.0%

Which technologies does Roland DG Corporation patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 121

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 31

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 28

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 10

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 6

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 5

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 4

Top 15 of 48 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

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

Roland DG Corporation's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #2,232 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Roland DG Corporation against Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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