Where does RTX Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), RTX Corporation ranks #429 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 RTX Corporation hold?

RTX Corporation holds 1,055 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 175 technology areas.

What is RTX Corporation's Innovation Score?

RTX Corporation has an Innovation Score of 78.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is RTX Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for RTX Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for RTX Corporation's patents?

RTX Corporation's patents average 15.8 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 RTX Corporation 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

RTX Corporation

Q: What technology areas does RTX Corporation focus on?

RTX Corporation'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 828 patents, ranking #7 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 175 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,055 granted patents across 175 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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, RTX ranks #429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,055 patents across 175 technology areas.

#429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.5/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R429 · US Corporation #429 · 1,055 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ServiceNow
CPC-WIDE F05D · 175 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ServiceNow, Inc. (±3 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 RTX’s 78.5 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 24.1 pts (31%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing BOE… · near

79
Charter Communicatio… · near

79
Dell Products · near

79
RTX · this assignee

79
Tencent America · near

78
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows RTX's Innovation Score is 78.5/100 (top 1% 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 RTX?

Each dot is one of RTX’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). RTX’s own 15.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How RTX's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2023–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 510 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 152. Lead class F05D accounts for 78.5% of the portfolio across 175 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (#425) and Largan Precision Co., Ltd. (#433).

RTX's three-year grant acceleration

RTX Corporation shows 662 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Hoffmann-la Roche

1,065
Lawrence Livermor…

1,064
Zoox

1,064
Universal Display

1,058
RTX ◀

1,055
Servicenow

1,052
Duke University

1,050
University of Pit…

1,050
Largan Precision

1,046

What this shows RTX holds 1,055 patents at rank #429, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RTX

By rank, the assignees closest to #429 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for RTX, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), RTX ranks #7 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Dell Products L.P. 79 Tencent America LLC 78 Charter Communications Operating, LLC 79 Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Wistron Corporation 15.8 avg City of Hope 15.8 avg Fenwal, Inc. 15.8 avg Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. 15.8 avg

RTX's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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RTX Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	152	14.4%
2024	510	48.3%
2025partial year	393	37.3%

Which technologies does RTX Corporation patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 828

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 638

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 500

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 269

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 189

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 113

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 108

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 104

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 82

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 64

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 56

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 53

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 47

F16H - Gearing 42

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 39

Top 15 of 175 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

RTX Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

RTX Corporation's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 78.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare RTX Corporation against Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.5/100 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

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