Where does Eastman Kodak Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eastman Kodak Company ranks #622 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 Eastman Kodak Company hold?

Eastman Kodak Company holds 711 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 134 technology areas.

What is Eastman Kodak Company's Innovation Score?

Eastman Kodak Company has an Innovation Score of 60.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Eastman Kodak Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eastman Kodak Company's recent grant velocity is -82% 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 Eastman Kodak Company's patents?

Eastman Kodak Company'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 Eastman Kodak Company 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

Eastman Kodak Company

Q: What technology areas does Eastman Kodak Company focus on?

Eastman Kodak Company's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 142 patents, ranking #18 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 134 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 711 granted patents across 134 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Eastman ranks #622 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 711 patents across 134 technology areas.

#622
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.2/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R622 · US Corporation #622 · 711 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 711 grants
TOP-DECILE #622/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carefusion 303
CPC-WIDE B41J · 134 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carefusion 303, 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 Eastman’s 60.2 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 22.7 pts (38%) Velocity 3.0 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gentex · near

60
Sercel · near

60
Eastman Kodak · this assignee

60
Fresenius Kabi… · near

60
Fuzhou BOE Optoelect… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eastman's Innovation Score is 60.2/100 (top 3% 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 Eastman?

Each dot is one of Eastman’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). Eastman’s own 15.8 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.

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

How Eastman's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Eastman Kodak Company received 105 grants versus 593 in 2015–2019 (-82% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 243 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 9. Lead class B41J accounts for 20% of the portfolio across 134 subclasses. Volume neighbours: FG Innovation Company Limited (#618) and NEW York University (#626).

Eastman's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Eastman Kodak Company moved from 104 to 47 grants (0.45x 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 #2,789. See the growth leaderboard.

FG Innovation

714
Masimo

714
Joled

713
Carefusion 303

711
Eastman Kodak ◀

711
Johnson Controls…

710
Viavi Solutions

710
CJ Cheiljedang

709
NEW York Universi…

709

What this shows Eastman holds 711 patents at rank #622, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eastman

By rank, the assignees closest to #622 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eastman, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Eastman ranks #18 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH 60 Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 60 Gentex Corporation 60 Sercel, Inc 60

Similar claim depth

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

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 15.8 avg General Motors LLC 15.8 avg Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches AÉROSPATIALES 15.8 avg Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO 15.8 avg

Eastman's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Eastman Kodak Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	243	34.2%
2016	180	25.3%
2017	78	11.0%
2018	46	6.5%
2019	46	6.5%
2020	32	4.5%
2021	26	3.7%
2022	15	2.1%
2023	23	3.2%
2024	9	1.3%
2025partial year	13	1.8%

Which technologies does Eastman Kodak Company patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 142

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 132

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 109

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 79

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 78

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 69

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 69

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 68

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 58

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 52

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 50

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 45

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 45

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 41

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 40

Top 15 of 134 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

Eastman Kodak Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eastman Kodak Company's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #622 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eastman Kodak Company against FG Innovation Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.2/100 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.

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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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