Where does Kennametal Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kennametal Inc. ranks #886 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 Kennametal Inc. hold?

Kennametal Inc. holds 512 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 79 technology areas.

What is Kennametal Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kennametal Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kennametal Inc. focus on?

Kennametal Inc.'s top technology area is B23B (TURNING; Boring) with 231 patents, ranking #1 of 490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 79 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kennametal Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kennametal Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Kennametal Inc.'s patents?

Kennametal Inc.'s patents average 15.5 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 Kennametal Inc. 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 US Corporation

Kennametal Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 512 granted patents across 79 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: B23B (TURNING; Boring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kennametal ranks #886 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 512 patents across 79 technology areas.

#886
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R886 · US Corporation #886 · 512 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 512 grants
TOP-DECILE #886/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dish L L C
CPC-WIDE B23B · 79 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dish Technologies L.L.C. (±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 Kennametal’s 60.1 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 21.6 pts (36%) Velocity 4.2 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metawave · near

60
Cummins Power… · near

60
Kennametal · this assignee

60
Landis+Gyr Technology · near

60
Sichuan University · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kennametal's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 4% 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 Kennametal?

Each dot is one of Kennametal’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). Kennametal’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Kennametal's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kennametal Inc. received 161 grants versus 328 in 2015–2019 (-51% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 80 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 24. Lead class B23B accounts for 45.1% of the portfolio across 79 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cfph, LLC (#882) and Entegris, Inc. (#890).

Kennametal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kennametal Inc. moved from 135 to 86 grants (0.64x 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 #2,341. See the growth leaderboard.

Cfph

514
Bayer Intellectua…

513
Dish L L C

512
Emory University

512
Kennametal ◀

512
Jiangnan Universi…

511
Nicoventures Trad…

511
Sumitomo Metal Mi…

511
Entegris

509

What this shows Kennametal holds 512 patents at rank #886, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kennametal

By rank, the assignees closest to #886 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23B (Turning)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kennametal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23B (Turning), Kennametal ranks #1 of 490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Sichuan University 60 Cummins Power Generation Inc. 60 Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc. 60 Metawave Corporation 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. 15.5 avg Ford Global Technologies, LLC 15.5 avg Ablynx N.V. 15.5 avg Kantatsu Co., Ltd 15.5 avg

Kennametal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Kennametal Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	73	14.3%
2016	56	10.9%
2017	80	15.6%
2018	59	11.5%
2019	60	11.7%
2020	45	8.8%
2021	30	5.9%
2022	24	4.7%
2023	31	6.1%
2024	31	6.1%
2025partial year	23	4.5%

Which technologies does Kennametal Inc. patent most?

B23B - TURNING; Boring 231

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 215

B23C - Milling 158

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 56

C22C - Alloys 52

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 52

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 38

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 32

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 23

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 23

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 22

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 20

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

Top 15 of 79 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

Kennametal Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kennametal Inc.'s lead technology class is B23B (TURNING; Boring), 45.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23B
Ranked #886 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kennametal Inc. against Cfph, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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