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Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 555 granted patents across 125 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rolls-royce ranks #827 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 555 patents across 125 technology areas.

#827
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.7/100)
14.9
avg claims per patent
+20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R827 · Foreign Corporation #827 · 555 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MID 555 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #827/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH STMicroelectronics…
  • CPC-WIDE F05D · 125 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 62.7/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-UP +20% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Rolls-royce

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

score

What this shows Rolls-royce's Innovation Score is 62.7/100 (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 Rolls-royce's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG received 290 grants versus 242 in 2015–2019 (+20% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 66 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 34. Lead class F05D accounts for 60.9% of the portfolio across 125 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Minebea Mitsumi Inc. (#823) and Walters Gardens, Inc. (#831).

Rolls-royce's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG moved from 171 to 177 grants (1.03x 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 #1,091. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Rolls-royce's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Rolls-royce holds 555 patents at rank #827, 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 Rolls-royce

By rank, the assignees closest to #827 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rolls-royce's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Kokusai Electric Corporation 63 Ambarella International LP 63 Hutchinson Technology Incorporated 63 Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

China Academy OF Telecommunications Technology 14.9 avg Huawei Device Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg MCP IP, LLC 14.9 avg Kodak Alaris, LLC 14.9 avg

Rolls-royce's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

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

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 34 6.1%
2016 46 8.3%
2017 45 8.1%
2018 59 10.6%
2019 58 10.5%
2020 62 11.2%
2021 51 9.2%
2022 59 10.6%
2023 66 11.9%
2024 52 9.4%
2025partial year 23 4.1%

Which technologies does Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG patent most?

Top 15 of 125 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#827

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.7 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

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 60.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
  • Ranked #827 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG against Minebea Mitsumi Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 62.7/100 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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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.