Where does Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. ranks #25,112 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 Building Products (USA) Inc. hold?

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. has an Innovation Score of 24.5 out of 100 (15th percentile 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 Building Products (USA) Inc. focus on?

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s top technology area is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors) with 5 patents, ranking #138 of 584 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +167% 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 Building Products (USA) Inc.'s patents?

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s patents average 11.9 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 Royal Building Products (USA) 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

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Royal ranks #25,112 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 5 technology areas.

#25,112
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 15th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.5/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25112 · US Corporation #25,112 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,112/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ripley Tools
CPC-NARROW E04F · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ripley Tools, LLC (±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 24.5 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 8.6 pts (35%) Velocity 0.8 pts (3%) Breadth 7.9 pts (32%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (29%)

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What this shows Royal's Innovation Score is 24.5/100 (15th percentile 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 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Royal's grants concentrate

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Royal sits between Ripley Tools, LLC and Sabaf S.P.A..

Royal's three-year grant acceleration

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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What this shows Royal holds 11 patents at rank #25,097, 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 #25,097 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings)

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

Royal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 15th percentile higher than 15% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	7	63.6%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. patent most?

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 5

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.'s lead technology class is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04F
Ranked #25,112 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Royal Building Products (USA) Inc. against Ripley Tools, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.5/100 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

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.