Where does Kerneos rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kerneos ranks #22,858 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 Kerneos hold?

Kerneos holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Kerneos's Innovation Score?

Kerneos has an Innovation Score of 28.4 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kerneos's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kerneos's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kerneos's patents?

Kerneos's patents average 19.4 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 Kerneos 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

Kerneos

Q: What technology areas does Kerneos focus on?

Kerneos's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 11 patents, ranking #130 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 5 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kerneos ranks #22,858 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,858
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.4/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22858 · Foreign Corporation #22,858 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,858/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kalamazoo Holdings
CPC-NARROW C04B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kalamazoo Holdings, 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 Kerneos’s 28.4 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 8.9 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.9 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kerneos · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kerneos's Innovation Score is 28.4/100 (27th percentile 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 Kerneos?

Each dot is one of Kerneos’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). Kerneos’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kerneos's grants concentrate

Kerneos is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Kerneos sits between Kalamazoo Holdings, Inc. and Kobiolabs, Inc..

Kalamazoo Holdings

12
KAO

12
KC IP Holdings

12
Kenford Industrial

12
Kingbright

12
Kitazato

12
KLS Martin

12
Kobiolabs

12
Kerneos ◀

12

What this shows Kerneos holds 12 patents at rank #22,848, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kerneos

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,848 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

Kerneos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 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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Kerneos patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	3	25.0%
2020	5	41.7%
2021	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Kerneos patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 11

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Kerneos's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #22,858 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kerneos against Kalamazoo Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.4/100 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

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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