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Kennametal India Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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 #13,006 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 12 technology areas.

#13,006
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100)
16.5
avg claims per patent
-47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13006 · Foreign Corporation #13,006 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
  • MID-PACK #13,006/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kaikutek
  • CPC-FOCUS B23B · 12 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -47% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kaikutek Inc. (±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 53.1 Innovation Score adds up

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

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Kennametal

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

score

What this shows Kennametal's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 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 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 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. 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 22.922.92323.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Kaikutek Inc. - 23, 11.39KaikutekKorea Electric Terminal Co., Ltd. - 23, 11.7Korea Electric Te…KSM Castings Group GmbH - 23, 22KSM Castings GroupKuhn North America, Inc. - 23, 13.09Kuhn North AmericaKhoros, LLC - 23, 19.39KhorosKinetic River Corp. - 23, 18.83Kinetic RiverKinetic Technologies International Holdings LP - 23, 18.52Kinetic Internati…Kraco Enterprises, LLC. - 23, 2.48Kraco EnterprisesKennametal India Ltd. - 23, 16.52Kennametal India
Kennametal vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Kennametal's grants concentrate

Kennametal India Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 65.2% of grants classified under B23B (TURNING; Boring). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kennametal sits between Kaikutek Inc. and Kraco Enterprises, LLC..

Kennametal's three-year grant acceleration

Kennametal India Ltd. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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 Kennametal's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Kennametal holds 23 patents at rank #13,005, 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 Kennametal

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,005 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 #30 of 490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

European Space Agency 53 Automotive Research & Testing Center 53 PetroChina Company Limited 53 Waters Technologies Ireland Limited 53

Kennametal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 India Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 4.3%
2016 5 21.7%
2017 5 21.7%
2018 4 17.4%
2020 2 8.7%
2022 2 8.7%
2023 3 13.0%
2024 1 4.3%

Which technologies does Kennametal India Ltd. patent most?

Top 12 of 12 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 India Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Kennametal India Ltd.'s lead technology class is B23B (TURNING; Boring), 65.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23B
  • Ranked #13,006 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Kennametal India Ltd. against Kaikutek Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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

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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.