Where does KEY Safety Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), KEY Safety Systems, Inc. ranks #5,852 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 KEY Safety Systems, Inc. hold?

KEY Safety Systems, Inc. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

KEY Safety Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does KEY Safety Systems, Inc. focus on?

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 45 patents, ranking #98 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'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 KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s patents?

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s patents average 14.9 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 KEY Safety Systems, 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

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, KEY ranks #5,852 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 35 technology areas.

#5,852
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5852 · US Corporation #5,852 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,852/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institute of…
CPC-FOCUS B60R · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences (±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 KEY’s 44.6 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 14.1 pts (32%) Velocity 0.6 pts (1%) Breadth 20.9 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arcadyan Technology · near

45
Invent ly · near

45
KEY Safety Systems · this assignee

45
Lutronic Vision · near

45
Shinano Kenshi · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows KEY's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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 KEY?

Each dot is one of KEY’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). KEY’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where KEY's grants concentrate

KEY Safety Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 77.6% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, KEY sits between Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lisi Aerospace.

KEY's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, KEY Safety Systems, Inc. moved from 33 to 3 grants (0.09x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Institute of Chem…

58
Intellijoint Surg…

58
JD com American

58
Jiangsu Midea Cle…

58
Korea University…

58
Keithley Instrume…

58
L'orÉAL

58
Lisi Aerospace

58
KEY Safety Systems ◀

58

What this shows KEY holds 58 patents at rank #5,851, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near KEY

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,851 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for KEY, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), KEY ranks #98 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki Kaisha 45 Arcadyan Technology Corporation 45 Invent.ly LLC 45 Lutronic Vision Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. 14.9 avg Indian Institute OF Technology Bombay 14.9 avg Nobel Biocare Services AG 14.9 avg A. O. Smith Corporation 14.9 avg

KEY's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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KEY Safety Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.2%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	9	15.5%
2018	5	8.6%
2019	7	12.1%
2020	9	15.5%
2021	17	29.3%
2022	3	5.2%

Which technologies does KEY Safety Systems, Inc. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 45

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 7

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Top 15 of 35 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

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

KEY Safety Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 77.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #5,852 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare KEY Safety Systems, Inc. against Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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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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

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