Where does Hyundai Kefico Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyundai Kefico Corporation ranks #3,499 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 Hyundai Kefico Corporation hold?

Hyundai Kefico Corporation holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Hyundai Kefico Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hyundai Kefico Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.2 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 Hyundai Kefico Corporation focus on?

Hyundai Kefico Corporation's top technology area is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof) with 38 patents, ranking #43 of 574 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hyundai Kefico Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hyundai Kefico Corporation's recent grant velocity is +161% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hyundai Kefico Corporation's patents?

Hyundai Kefico Corporation's patents average 10.5 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 Hyundai Kefico 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 Foreign Corporation

Hyundai Kefico Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 65 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hyundai ranks #3,499 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 65 technology areas.

#3,499
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +161%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3499 · Foreign Corporation #3,499 · 105 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,499/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Great Wall Motor
CPC-WIDE F02M · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +161% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Great Wall Motor Company Limited (±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 Hyundai’s 56.2 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 16.1 pts (29%) Velocity 8.8 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Tobacco… · near

56
Hyundai Kefico · this assignee

56
Jingdong Technology… · near

56
Tadano · near

56
Universidade DO Porto · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyundai's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (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 Hyundai?

Each dot is one of Hyundai’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). Hyundai’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Hyundai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hyundai Kefico Corporation received 73 grants versus 28 in 2015–2019 (+161% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class F02M accounts for 36.2% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Great Wall Motor Company Limited (#3,495) and Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (#3,503).

Hyundai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hyundai Kefico Corporation moved from 37 to 49 grants (1.32x 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 #612. See the growth leaderboard.

Great Wall Motor

105
Guangzhou Automob…

105
HCT Group Holdings

105
Hewlett-packard I…

105
Imperva

105
LM WP Patent Hold…

105
Merial

105
Maxeon Solar Pte

105
Hyundai Kefico ◀

105

What this shows Hyundai holds 105 patents at rank #3,499, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hyundai

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,499 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hyundai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…), Hyundai ranks #43 of 574 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Tadano Ltd. 56 China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd. 56 Universidade DO Porto 56 Jingdong Technology Information Technology Co., Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. 10.5 avg TCI Co., Ltd. 10.5 avg Aircelle 10.5 avg Nexans 10.5 avg

Hyundai'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hyundai Kefico Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.0%
2017	5	4.8%
2018	9	8.6%
2019	13	12.4%
2020	13	12.4%
2021	11	10.5%
2022	19	18.1%
2023	17	16.2%
2024	13	12.4%
2025partial year	4	3.8%

Which technologies does Hyundai Kefico Corporation patent most?

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 38

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 31

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 22

F16H - Gearing 21

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 13

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 9

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 9

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 7

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 5

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 4

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 4

Top 15 of 65 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

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

Hyundai Kefico Corporation's lead technology class is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02M
Ranked #3,499 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyundai Kefico Corporation against Great Wall Motor Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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

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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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