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KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, KCI ranks #29,199 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 7 technology areas.

#29,199
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100)
16.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29199 · Foreign Corporation #29,199 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #29,199/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kake Educational…
  • CPC-NARROW A61M · 7 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kake Educational Institution (±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 KCI’s 40.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around KCI

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows KCI's Innovation Score is 40.4/100 (top 36% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for KCI?

Each dot is one of KCI’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). KCI’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

KCI vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Kake Educational Institution - 9, 10.67Kake Educational…Kapp Werkzeugmaschinen GMBH - 9, 10Kapp Werkzeugmasc…Kawasumi Laboratories, Inc. - 9, 7.89Kawasumi Laborato…Kbws Corporation - 9, 8.44KbwsKCI Medical Resources Unlimited Company - 9, 19.22KCI Medical Resou…Keene Building Products Co., Inc. - 9, 15.11Keene Building Pr…KEY Energy Services, LLC - 9, 20.11KEY Energy Servic…Keyview Labs, Inc. - 9, 19.56Keyview LabsKCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company - 9, 16.33KCI Manufacturing…
KCI vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where KCI's grants concentrate

KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor). By volume, KCI sits between Kake Educational Institution and Keyview Labs, Inc..

KCI's three-year grant acceleration

KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Who files at KCI's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows KCI holds 9 patents at rank #29,167, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near KCI

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,167 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

KCI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

02468 202220242025 7
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2022 1 11.1%
2024 1 11.1%
2025partial year 7 77.8%

Which technologies does KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company patent most?

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company's lead technology class is A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
  • Ranked #29,199 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare KCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company against Kake Educational Institution, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 40.4/100 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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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.