Where does Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. ranks #518 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 North American Technologies Inc. hold?

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. holds 868 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 151 technology areas.

What is Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.4 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 North American Technologies Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +48% 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 North American Technologies Inc.'s patents?

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'s patents average 17.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. focus on?

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'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 601 patents, ranking #9 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 151 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Rolls-Royce North American Technologies 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 PatentsView assignee record - 868 granted patents across 151 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 #518 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 868 patents across 151 technology areas.

#518
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R518 · US Corporation #518 · 868 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 868 grants
TOP-DECILE #518/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Daimler
CPC-WIDE F05D · 151 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Daimler AG (±2 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 62.4 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 23.4 pts (37%) Velocity 3.9 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amkor Technology… · near

62
Rolls-Royce North… · this assignee

62
ST Jude Medical… · near

62
ABS Global · near

62
Sorbonne Universite · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rolls-royce's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (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 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 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 North American Technologies Inc. received 483 grants versus 326 in 2015–2019 (+48% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 137 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 28. Lead class F05D accounts for 69.2% of the portfolio across 151 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Imec VZW (#514) and SharkNinja Operating LLC (#522).

Rolls-royce's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. moved from 393 to 227 grants (0.58x 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 #2,499. See the growth leaderboard.

Imec VZW

876
Amgen

875
Georgia Tech Rese…

870
IFP Energies Nouv…

870
Rolls-royce North… ◀

868
Daimler

866
Avago Internation…

864
Zebra

863
Sharkninja Operat…

862

What this shows Rolls-Royce holds 868 patents at rank #518, 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 #518 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 #9 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

ST. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. 62 Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. Ltd. 62 Sorbonne Universite 62 ABS Global, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Lutron Technology Company LLC 17.0 avg Cedars Sinai Medical Center 17.0 avg EGALAX_EMPIA Technology Inc. 17.0 avg Wangs Alliance Corporation 17.0 avg

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

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

62 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 North American Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	3.2%
2016	29	3.3%
2017	62	7.1%
2018	70	8.1%
2019	137	15.8%
2020	135	15.6%
2021	121	13.9%
2022	91	10.5%
2023	67	7.7%
2024	69	7.9%
2025partial year	59	6.8%

Which technologies does Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 601

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 508

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 381

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 301

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 152

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 118

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 91

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 59

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 43

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 38

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 37

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 34

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 29

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 26

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 25

Top 15 of 151 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 North American Technologies Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #518 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. against Imec VZW, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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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