Where does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ranks #1,542 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 hold?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven holds 270 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 134 technology areas.

What is Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Innovation Score?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven has an Innovation Score of 61.1 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's recent grant velocity is +55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's patents?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's patents average 15.9 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 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

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Q: What technology areas does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven focus on?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 83 patents. Grants appear in 134 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 270 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Katholieke ranks #1,542 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 270 patents across 134 technology areas.

#1,542
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1542 · Foreign Corporation #1,542 · 270 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 270 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,542/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Colorado State…
CPC-WIDE A61P · 134 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Colorado State University Research Foundation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chongqing BOE… · near

61
Katholieke Universit… · this assignee

61
OpenLight Photonics · near

61
Ultima Genomics · near

61
Research Institute… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Katholieke's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (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.

How Katholieke's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven received 152 grants versus 98 in 2015–2019 (+55% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 16. Lead class A61P accounts for 30.7% of the portfolio across 134 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Techtronic Cordless GP (#1,538) and Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC (#1,546).

Katholieke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven moved from 84 to 91 grants (1.08x 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 #993. See the growth leaderboard.

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271
Colorado State Un…

270
Garmin Switzerland

270
Haier Smart Home

270
Tile

270
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270
Advanced Connectek

269
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269
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268

What this shows Katholieke holds 270 patents at rank #1,542, 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 #1,542 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Ultima Genomics, Inc. 61 OpenLight Photonics, Inc. 61 Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 61 Research Institute OF Industrial Science & Technology 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Magna International Inc. 15.9 avg Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC 15.9 avg DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH 15.9 avg Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. 15.9 avg

Katholieke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	7.0%
2016	16	5.9%
2017	20	7.4%
2018	20	7.4%
2019	23	8.5%
2020	33	12.2%
2021	28	10.4%
2022	28	10.4%
2023	32	11.9%
2024	31	11.5%
2025partial year	20	7.4%

Which technologies does Katholieke Universiteit Leuven patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 83

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 78

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 43

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 42

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 34

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 32

C07K - Peptides 25

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 21

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 18

G11C - Static Stores 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

Top 15 of 134 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,542

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 30.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #1,542 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Katholieke Universiteit Leuven against Techtronic Cordless GP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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