Where does Kakao Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kakao Corp. ranks #3,599 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 Kakao Corp. hold?

Kakao Corp. holds 102 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Kakao Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Kakao Corp. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kakao Corp. focus on?

Kakao Corp.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 81 patents, ranking #456 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kakao Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kakao Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +433% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kakao Corp.'s patents?

Kakao Corp.'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 Kakao Corp. 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

Kakao Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 102 granted patents across 13 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kakao ranks #3,599 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 102 patents across 13 technology areas.

#3,599
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +433%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3599 · Foreign Corporation #3,599 · 102 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 102 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,599/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genesis Photonics
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +433% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genesis Photonics 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 Kakao’s 48.5 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 16.0 pts (33%) Velocity 10.4 pts (21%) Breadth 12.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coherent Logix… · near

49
Kakao · this assignee

49
Kitagawa Industries · near

49
Shanghai IC R&D Center · near

49
Sonicwall · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kakao's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Kakao?

Each dot is one of Kakao’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). Kakao’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kakao's grants concentrate

Kakao Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 79.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Kakao sits between Genesis Photonics Inc. and Ormco Corporation.

Kakao's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kakao Corp. moved from 27 to 42 grants (1.56x 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 #404. See the growth leaderboard.

Genesis Photonics

102
H C Starck

102
Inficon

102
Infineum Internat…

102
Kymab

102
Mellanox TLV

102
Nisshin Steel

102
Ormco

102
Kakao ◀

102

What this shows Kakao holds 102 patents at rank #3,599, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kakao

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,599 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kakao, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Kakao ranks #456 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Coherent Logix, Incorporated 49 Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. 49 Sonicwall Inc. 49 Shanghai IC R&D Center Co., Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

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

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 15.7 avg Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research 15.7 avg Vital Connect, Inc. 15.7 avg Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas 15.7 avg

Kakao's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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.

View data table

Kakao Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	2.9%
2017	3	2.9%
2018	1	1.0%
2019	5	4.9%
2020	12	11.8%
2021	10	9.8%
2022	10	9.8%
2023	15	14.7%
2024	17	16.7%
2025partial year	26	25.5%

Which technologies does Kakao Corp. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 81

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 43

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

H04M - Telephonic Communication 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Kakao Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kakao Corp.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 79.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,599 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kakao Corp. against Genesis Photonics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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