Where does The Rockefeller University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Rockefeller University ranks #1,995 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 The Rockefeller University hold?

The Rockefeller University holds 201 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is The Rockefeller University's Innovation Score?

The Rockefeller University has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Rockefeller University focus on?

The Rockefeller University's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 145 patents, ranking #122 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Rockefeller University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Rockefeller University's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 The Rockefeller University's patents?

The Rockefeller University's patents average 15.7 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 The Rockefeller University 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

The Rockefeller University

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 201 granted patents across 42 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #1,995 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 201 patents across 42 technology areas.

#1,995
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1995 · US Corporation #1,995 · 201 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 201 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,995/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intervet
CPC-WIDE A61K · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intervet Inc. (±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 The’s 56.4 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 18.3 pts (33%) Velocity 5.7 pts (10%) Breadth 22.9 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Valeo North America · near

56
Arts · near

56
Calb · near

56
Kyungdong Navien · near

56
The Rockefeller… · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Rockefeller University is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 72.1% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (27 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2018. By volume, The sits between Intervet Inc. and Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd.

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Rockefeller University moved from 56 to 48 grants (0.86x 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 #1,636. See the growth leaderboard.

Intervet

201
Nippon Kayaku

201
Renesas America

201
SMK

201
Valve

201
Wolfspeed

201
The Rockefeller U… ◀

201
Commscope of Nort…

200
Dongguan Luxshare

200

What this shows The holds 201 patents at rank #1,995, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,995 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), The ranks #122 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. 56 Electronic Arts Inc. 56 Calb Co., Ltd. 56 Valeo North America, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. 15.7 avg Lanxess Deutschland GmbH 15.7 avg Aledia 15.7 avg Computational Systems, Inc. 15.7 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

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The Rockefeller University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	13.4%
2016	23	11.4%
2017	21	10.4%
2018	12	6.0%
2019	17	8.5%
2020	16	8.0%
2021	23	11.4%
2022	18	9.0%
2023	14	7.0%
2024	16	8.0%
2025partial year	14	7.0%

Which technologies does The Rockefeller University patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 145

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 128

C07K - Peptides 100

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 84

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 52

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 26

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 26

C12Y - Enzymes 24

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 18

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 16

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 13

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 12

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 7

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

Top 15 of 42 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

The Rockefeller University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Rockefeller University's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 72.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,995 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Rockefeller University against Intervet Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 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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