Where does Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. ranks #22,857 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. hold?

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 18.9 out of 100 (top 95% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -91% 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 Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s patents?

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s patents average 6.5 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 Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. 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

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. focus on?

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd.'s top technology area is A45D (HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT ; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: A45D (HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT ; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kenford ranks #22,857 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 3 technology areas.

#22,857
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 95%
by Innovation Score (18.9/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22857 · Foreign Corporation #22,857 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,857/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH SOMIC ISHIKAWA
CPC-NARROW A45D · 3 areas
INNOV-LOW 18.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Somic Ishikawa (±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
Kenford Industrial · this assignee

19
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Kenford's Innovation Score is 18.9/100 (top 95% 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.

Where Kenford's grants concentrate

Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under A45D (HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT ; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Kenford sits between Kabushiki Kaisha Somic Ishikawa and KLS Martin, L.p..

Somic Ishikawa

12
Kalamazoo Holdings

12
KAO

12
KC IP Holdings

12
Kerneos

12
Kingbright

12
Kitazato

12
KLS Martin

12
Kenford Industrial ◀

12

What this shows Kenford holds 12 patents at rank #22,847, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kenford

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,847 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment)

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

Kenford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 Top 95% higher than 5% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

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

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Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	41.7%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	3	25.0%
2021	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Kenford Industrial Company Ltd. patent most?

A45D - HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT ; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING 4

A46B - BRUSHES 1

F26B - DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,857

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

18.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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