Where does RTC Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), RTC Industries, Inc. ranks #2,795 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 RTC Industries, Inc. hold?

RTC Industries, Inc. holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is RTC Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

RTC Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is RTC Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

RTC Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for RTC Industries, Inc.'s patents?

RTC Industries, 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.

How is the RTC Industries, 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

RTC Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does RTC Industries, Inc. focus on?

RTC Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters) with 123 patents, ranking #2 of 482 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, RTC ranks #2,795 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 27 technology areas.

#2,795
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2795 · US Corporation #2,795 · 138 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,795/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jiangsu Hengrui…
CPC-FOCUS A47F · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine 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 RTC’s 48.3 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 17.0 pts (35%) Velocity 2.6 pts (5%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cassy Holdings · near

48
Excelitas · near

48
Lesaffre ET Compagnie · near

48
RTC Industries · this assignee

48
WestRock Packaging… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows RTC's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 RTC?

Each dot is one of RTC’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). RTC’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where RTC's grants concentrate

RTC Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 89.1% of grants classified under A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, RTC sits between Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. and Umicore.

RTC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, RTC Industries, Inc. moved from 48 to 19 grants (0.40x 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 #2,884. See the growth leaderboard.

Jiangsu Hengrui M…

138
Lubrizol Advanced…

138
Multivac Sepp Hag…

138
Qiagen

138
Safran Aero Boost…

138
Saipem S P A

138
Sandvik Mining an…

138
Umicore

138
RTC Industries ◀

138

What this shows RTC holds 138 patents at rank #2,795, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RTC

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,795 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47F (Special Furniture)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for RTC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47F (Special Furniture), RTC ranks #2 of 482 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Lesaffre ET Compagnie 48 Excelitas Technologies Corp. 48 Cassy Holdings LLC 48 WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC 48

Similar claim depth

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

UTI Inc. 17.0 avg University of Notre Dame du Lac 17.0 avg Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 17.0 avg Assa Abloy AB 17.0 avg

RTC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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RTC Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	16.7%
2016	18	13.0%
2017	19	13.8%
2018	11	8.0%
2019	17	12.3%
2020	14	10.1%
2021	17	12.3%
2022	11	8.0%
2023	6	4.3%
2024	2	1.4%

Which technologies does RTC Industries, Inc. patent most?

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 123

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 86

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 52

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 43

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 18

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 12

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 12

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 12

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 9

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 7

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 7

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

Top 15 of 27 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

RTC Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

RTC Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters), 89.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47F
Ranked #2,795 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare RTC Industries, Inc. against Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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