Where does RWTH Aachen rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), RWTH Aachen ranks #19,102 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does RWTH Aachen hold?

RWTH Aachen holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is RWTH Aachen's Innovation Score?

RWTH Aachen has an Innovation Score of 34.5 out of 100 (top 52% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does RWTH Aachen focus on?

RWTH Aachen's top technology area is G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is RWTH Aachen's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

RWTH Aachen's recent grant velocity is -93% 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 RWTH Aachen's patents?

RWTH Aachen's patents average 13.9 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 RWTH Aachen 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

RWTH Aachen

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, RWTH ranks #19,102 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 22 technology areas.

#19,102
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 52%
by Innovation Score (34.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19102 · Foreign Corporation #19,102 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,102/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Radius Group
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Radius Group, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
RWTH Aachen · this assignee

34
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows RWTH Aachen stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #19,102 of 50,000; Innovation Score 34.5/100 sits in the top 52% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Radius Group, Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

RWTH Aachen has been granted 15 US utility patents between 2015 and 2020, placing RWTH Aachen at #19,102 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 22 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 13.9 claims per patent with primary concentration in G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). As a Foreign Corporation, RWTH Aachen is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, RWTH sits between Rt-filtertechnik Gmbh (15 patents, rank #19,075) and Rappaport Family Institute For Research In The Medical Sciences (15 patents, rank #19,083) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 34.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 1 grants, compared with 14 in the 2015–2019 window, a -93% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. RWTH Aachen's 13.9 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 22 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Rt-filtertechnik

15
RTG Scientific

15
Runsafe Security

15
RWE Renewables

15
Radius Group

15
Rain Neuromorphics

15
Rapala VMC Oyj

15
Rappaport Family…

15
RWTH Aachen ◀

15

What this shows RWTH holds 15 patents at rank #19,079, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RWTH

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,079 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

RWTH's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 Top 52% higher than 48% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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RWTH Aachen patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	33.3%
2016	4	26.7%
2017	1	6.7%
2019	4	26.7%
2020	1	6.7%

Which technologies does RWTH Aachen patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 5

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 4

H04B - TRANSMISSION 4

H04J - MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION 2

H03F - AMPLIFIERS 2

G02F - OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 1

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 1

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 1

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 1

H03L - AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES 1

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

H03G - CONTROL OF AMPLIFICATION 1

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#19,102

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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