Where does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D ranks #2,199 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D hold?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D holds 179 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's Innovation Score?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D has an Innovation Score of 55.2 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's patents?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's patents average 14.8 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D

Q: What technology areas does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D focus on?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 34 patents, ranking #560 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D 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 - 179 granted patents across 94 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Katholieke ranks #2,199 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 179 patents across 94 technology areas.

#2,199
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.2/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2199 · Foreign Corporation #2,199 · 179 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 179 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,199/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GE Avio S R L
CPC-WIDE A61P · 94 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GE Avio S.R.L. (±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 Katholieke’s 55.2 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 17.9 pts (32%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adeia Media Holdings · near

55
Gogoro · near

55
Katholieke Universit… · this assignee

55
Monolithic Power… · near

55
Subsea 7 Norway AS · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Katholieke's Innovation Score is 55.2/100 (top 7% 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 Katholieke?

Each dot is one of Katholieke’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). Katholieke’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Katholieke's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D received 63 grants versus 114 in 2015–2019 (-45% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 7. Lead class A61P accounts for 19% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GE Avio S.R.L. (#2,195) and The University of Toledo (#2,203).

Katholieke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D moved from 51 to 26 grants (0.51x 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 #2,670. See the growth leaderboard.

GE Avio S R L

179
Global Unichip

179
Hitachi Energy Sw…

179
Inteva Products

179
Kureha

179
Synaptive Medical…

179
Stanley Black & D…

179
The University of…

179
Katholieke Univer… ◀

179

What this shows Katholieke holds 179 patents at rank #2,199, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Katholieke

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,199 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Katholieke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Katholieke ranks #560 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. 55 Gogoro, Inc. 55 Subsea 7 Norway AS 55 Adeia Media Holdings LLC 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg Matthews International Corporation 14.8 avg Etel S.A. 14.8 avg

Katholieke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	12.3%
2016	25	14.0%
2017	26	14.5%
2018	27	15.1%
2019	14	7.8%
2020	20	11.2%
2021	17	9.5%
2022	8	4.5%
2023	11	6.1%
2024	7	3.9%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 34

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 33

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 32

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 25

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 23

C07K - Peptides 21

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 21

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 16

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 15

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; 15

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 15

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

C12Y - Enzymes 11

Top 15 of 94 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

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 19% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #2,199 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D against GE Avio S.R.L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.2/100 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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