Where does KIA Motors Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), KIA Motors Corporation ranks #52 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 Motors Corporation hold?

KIA Motors Corporation holds 7,264 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 331 technology areas.

What is KIA Motors Corporation's Innovation Score?

KIA Motors Corporation has an Innovation Score of 67.4 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 Motors Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

KIA Motors Corporation's recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

KIA Motors Corporation's patents average 12.3 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 Motors 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 Motors Corporation

Q: What technology areas does KIA Motors Corporation focus on?

KIA Motors Corporation's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 1,721 patents. Grants appear in 331 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7,264 granted patents across 331 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, KIA ranks #52 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7,264 patents across 331 technology areas.

#52
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.4/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R52 · Foreign Corporation #52 · 7,264 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 7.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #52/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Oracle International
CPC-BROAD Y02T · 331 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oracle International Corporation (±79 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BAIDU COM Times… · near

67
Japan Display · near

67
KIA Motors · this assignee

67
Ut-battelle · near

67
NXP USA · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows KIA's Innovation Score is 67.4/100 (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.

How KIA's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, KIA Motors Corporation received 4,992 grants versus 2,251 in 2015–2019 (+122% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 1,401 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 185. Lead class Y02T accounts for 23.7% of the portfolio across 331 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (#48) and LG Chem, Ltd. (#56).

KIA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, KIA Motors Corporation moved from 3,658 to 2,334 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 #2,337. See the growth leaderboard.

Halliburton Energ…

7,827
Korea Advanced In…

7,452
EMC IP Holding

7,359
Oracle Internatio…

7,343
KIA Motors ◀

7,264
Honeywell Interna…

7,183
Siemens Aktienges…

7,003
Applied Materials

6,997
LG Chem

6,727

What this shows KIA holds 7,264 patents at rank #52, 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 #52 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Japan Display Inc. 67 Ut-battelle, LLC 67 BAIDU.COM Times Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. 67 NXP USA, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.3 here).

Koki Holdings Co., Ltd. 12.3 avg China National Petroleum Corporation 12.3 avg United Microelectronics Corp. 12.3 avg Quanta Computer Inc. 12.3 avg

KIA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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 · 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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KIA Motors Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	260	3.6%
2016	300	4.1%
2017	303	4.2%
2018	388	5.3%
2019	1,000	13.8%
2020	1,401	19.3%
2021	1,257	17.3%
2022	1,392	19.2%
2023	757	10.4%
2024	185	2.5%
2025partial year	21	0.3%

Which technologies does KIA Motors Corporation patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1,721

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 1,118

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 940

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 813

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 766

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 701

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 643

F16H - Gearing 571

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 562

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 424

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 369

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 322

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 296

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 277

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 272

Top 15 of 331 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#52

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

KIA Motors Corporation's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 23.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #52 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare KIA Motors Corporation against Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.4/100 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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