Where does KIA Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), KIA Corporation ranks #99 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 KIA Corporation hold?

KIA Corporation holds 3,712 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 271 technology areas.

What is KIA Corporation's Innovation Score?

KIA Corporation has an Innovation Score of 81.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is KIA Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for KIA Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for KIA Corporation's patents?

KIA Corporation's patents average 13.4 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 KIA Corporation 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

KIA Corporation

Q: What technology areas does KIA Corporation focus on?

KIA Corporation's top technology area is B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit) with 476 patents, ranking #13 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 271 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,712 granted patents across 271 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, KIA ranks #99 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,712 patents across 271 technology areas.

#99
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (81.4/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R99 · Foreign Corporation #99 · 3,712 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-ELITE · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-LARGE 3.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #99/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sandisk
CPC-BROAD B60W · 271 areas
INNOV-ELITE 81.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sandisk Technologies, 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 KIA’s 81.4 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 28.4 pts (35%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Taiwan Semiconductor… · near

82
KIA · this assignee

81
Samsung · near

81
Meta Platforms · near

81
Chengdu BOE… · near

81
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows KIA's Innovation Score is 81.4/100 (top 1% 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 KIA?

Each dot is one of KIA’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). KIA’s own 13.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How KIA's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2021–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 1,247 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 53. Lead class B60W accounts for 12.8% of the portfolio across 271 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fanuc Corporation (#95) and Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (HSC) (#103).

KIA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, KIA Corporation moved from 53 to 2,312 grants (44x 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 #1. See the growth leaderboard.

Fanuc

3,797
Massachusetts Ins…

3,784
Xerox

3,772
Bayerische Motore…

3,749
Sandisk

3,712
KIA ◀

3,712
Fuji Xerox

3,629
Panasonic Intelle…

3,535
Hamilton Sundstra…

3,501

What this shows KIA holds 3,712 patents at rank #99, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near KIA

By rank, the assignees closest to #99 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for KIA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), KIA ranks #13 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (81 here).

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 81 Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC 81 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 82 Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 81

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Dongwoo Fine-chem Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg Smith & Wesson Inc. 13.4 avg VueReal Inc. 13.4 avg Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S. L. 13.4 avg

KIA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

81 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

KIA Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	53	1.4%
2022	168	4.5%
2023	897	24.2%
2024	1,247	33.6%
2025partial year	1,347	36.3%

Which technologies does KIA Corporation patent most?

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 476

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 411

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 410

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 348

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 340

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 333

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 332

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 329

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 180

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 175

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 163

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 154

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 143

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 141

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 138

Top 15 of 271 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

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

KIA Corporation's lead technology class is B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE), 12.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #99 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare KIA Corporation against Fanuc Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 81.4/100 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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