Where does Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation ranks #2,141 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's patents?

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's patents average 11.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation

Q: How many patents does Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation hold?

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation holds 184 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

Q: What is Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's Innovation Score?

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation has an Innovation Score of 54.2 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: What technology areas does Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation focus on?

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 58 patents, ranking #847 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 184 granted patents across 98 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Foundation ranks #2,141 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 184 patents across 98 technology areas.

#2,141
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.2/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2141 · Foreign Corporation #2,141 · 184 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 184 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,141/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adtran
CPC-WIDE G06F · 98 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adtran, 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 Foundation’s 54.2 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 18.0 pts (33%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asia Vital Components · near

54
Faraday Technology · near

54
Foundation OF… · this assignee

54
Innospec · near

54
LG Hausys · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Foundation's Innovation Score is 54.2/100 (top 8% 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 Foundation?

Each dot is one of Foundation’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). Foundation’s own 11.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Foundation's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation received 63 grants versus 102 in 2015–2019 (-38% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 9. Lead class G06F accounts for 31.5% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Asics Corporation (#2,137) and Noritz Corporation (#2,145).

Foundation's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation moved from 51 to 35 grants (0.69x 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 #2,196. See the growth leaderboard.

Asics

184
Adtran

184
Dart Industries

184
ETH Zurich

184
Gates

184
Keio University

184
Live Nation Enter…

184
Noritz

184
Foundation OF Soo… ◀

184

What this shows Foundation holds 184 patents at rank #2,141, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Foundation

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,141 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Foundation, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Foundation ranks #847 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

LG Hausys, Ltd. 54 Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. 54 Faraday Technology Corp. 54 Innospec Limited 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Regalo International, LLC 11.0 avg Safran Ceramics 11.0 avg Hitachi, Ltd. 11.0 avg Mplus Corp. 11.0 avg

Foundation's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	9.2%
2016	16	8.7%
2017	17	9.2%
2018	29	15.8%
2019	23	12.5%
2020	16	8.7%
2021	12	6.5%
2022	11	6.0%
2023	9	4.9%
2024	15	8.2%
2025partial year	19	10.3%

Which technologies does Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 58

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 39

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 11

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 9

H04B - Transmission 8

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

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

Top 15 of 98 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

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 31.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,141 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Foundation OF Soongsil University-industry Cooperation against Asics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.2/100 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.

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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