Where does Royal Bank of Canada rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Royal Bank of Canada ranks #1,832 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 Royal Bank of Canada hold?

Royal Bank of Canada holds 221 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Royal Bank of Canada's Innovation Score?

Royal Bank of Canada has an Innovation Score of 64.0 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%).

What technology areas does Royal Bank of Canada focus on?

Royal Bank of Canada's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 128 patents, ranking #439 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Royal Bank of Canada's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Royal Bank of Canada's recent grant velocity is +1333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Royal Bank of Canada's patents?

Royal Bank of Canada's patents average 20.1 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 Royal Bank of Canada 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

Royal Bank of Canada

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 221 granted patents across 16 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Royal ranks #1,832 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 221 patents across 16 technology areas.

#1,832
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.0/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +1333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1832 · Foreign Corporation #1,832 · 221 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 221 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,832/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Angel
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 16 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Angel Co., Ltd. (±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 Royal’s 64.0 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 18.7 pts (29%) Velocity 19.1 pts (30%) Breadth 14.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cardiac Pacemakers · near

64
Dana Motion Systems… · near

64
Comadur · near

64
Royal Bank of Canada · this assignee

64
Cummins Filtration IP · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Royal's Innovation Score is 64.0/100 (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 Royal?

Each dot is one of Royal’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). Royal’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Royal's grants concentrate

Royal Bank of Canada is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 57.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (50 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Royal sits between Angel Co., Ltd. and ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG.

Royal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Royal Bank of Canada moved from 45 to 129 grants (2.87x 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 #90. See the growth leaderboard.

Angel

221
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

221
Celanese Internat…

221
Cohesity

221
Universite Claude…

221
Uipath

221
WHG Properties

221
ebm-papst Mulfing…

221
Royal Bank of Can… ◀

221

What this shows Royal holds 221 patents at rank #1,831, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Royal

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,831 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Royal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Royal ranks #439 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Comadur SA 64 Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. 64 Dana Motion Systems Italia S.R.L. 64 Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

Brain Corporation 20.1 avg Inc Square, Co., Ltd 20.1 avg Kateeva, Inc. 20.1 avg Evertz Microsystems Ltd. 20.1 avg

Royal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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.

View data table

Royal Bank of Canada patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	0.9%
2018	8	3.6%
2019	2	0.9%
2020	20	9.0%
2021	23	10.4%
2022	29	13.1%
2023	50	22.6%
2024	50	22.6%
2025partial year	37	16.7%

Which technologies does Royal Bank of Canada patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 128

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 102

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 97

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 92

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 18

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 12

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G01W - Meteorology 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Royal Bank of Canada's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Royal Bank of Canada's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,832 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Royal Bank of Canada against Angel Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.0/100 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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