Where does Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG ranks #827 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 Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG hold?

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG holds 555 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 125 technology areas.

What is Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's Innovation Score?

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG has an Innovation Score of 62.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's patents?

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's patents average 14.9 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 Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG 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

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG

Q: What technology areas does Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG focus on?

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG's top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 338 patents, ranking #17 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 125 CPC subclasses total.

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.

How Rolls-royce’s 62.7 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 21.8 pts (35%) Velocity 6.9 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ambarella Internatio… · near

63
Hutchinson Technolog… · near

63
Kokusai Electric · near

63
Rolls-royce… · this assignee

63
Societe des… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Rolls-royce?

Each dot is one of Rolls-royce’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). Rolls-royce’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

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.

Minebea Mitsumi

558
Zimmer

558
Asahi Kasei

557
Parsons Xtreme Go…

556
Stmicroelectronic…

555
Sumitomo Heavy In…

555
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

555
Rolls-royce Deuts… ◀

555
Walters Gardens

554

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.

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). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), Rolls-royce ranks #17 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

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

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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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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?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 338

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 278

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 242

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 206

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 102

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 90

F16H - Gearing 78

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 70

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 69

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 49

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 34

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 23

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 18

Top 15 of 125 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

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

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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