Where does Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. ranks #4,581 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 Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. hold?

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. holds 77 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s patents?

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. 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

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. focus on?

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 67 patents, ranking #20 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 77 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Roller ranks #4,581 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 77 patents across 36 technology areas.

#4,581
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4581 · US Corporation #4,581 · 77 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 77 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,581/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Norton (Waterford)
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Norton (Waterford) Limited (±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 Roller’s 52.7 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 15.0 pts (28%) Velocity 5.8 pts (11%) Breadth 21.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Dialog Semiconductor · near

53
Rubrik · near

53
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Roller Bearing of… · this assignee

53
Heartflow · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Roller's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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 Roller?

Each dot is one of Roller’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). Roller’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Roller's grants concentrate

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 87% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (11 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Roller sits between Norton (Waterford) Limited and STMicroelectronics Application GMBH.

Roller's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. moved from 22 to 19 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Roller holds 77 patents at rank #4,580, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Roller

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,580 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Roller, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16C (Shafts), Roller ranks #20 of 1,334 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Institute For Basic Science 53 Heartflow, Inc. 53 Dialog Semiconductor Inc. 53 Rubrik, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Blackhawk Network, Inc. 17.8 avg Total Marketing Services 17.8 avg L&P Property Management Company 17.8 avg Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited 17.8 avg

Roller's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	7.8%
2016	7	9.1%
2017	8	10.4%
2018	11	14.3%
2019	8	10.4%
2020	10	13.0%
2021	4	5.2%
2022	8	10.4%
2023	6	7.8%
2024	5	6.5%
2025partial year	4	5.2%

Which technologies does Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 67

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 13

F16H - Gearing 9

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 5

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

F03D - Wind Motors 3

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

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 2

Top 15 of 36 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

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 87% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #4,581 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. against Norton (Waterford) Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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

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.

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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

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