Where does Kidde Graviner Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kidde Graviner Limited ranks #24,643 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Kidde Graviner Limited hold?

Kidde Graviner Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Kidde Graviner Limited's Innovation Score?

Kidde Graviner Limited has an Innovation Score of 27.3 out of 100 (top 77% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kidde Graviner Limited focus on?

Kidde Graviner Limited's top technology area is A62C (FIRE-FIGHTING) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kidde Graviner Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kidde Graviner Limited's recent grant velocity is -33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Kidde Graviner Limited's patents?

Kidde Graviner Limited's patents average 13.0 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 Kidde Graviner Limited 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

Kidde Graviner Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A62C (FIRE-FIGHTING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kidde ranks #24,643 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 8 technology areas.

#24,643
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 77%
by Innovation Score (27.3/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24643 · Foreign Corporation #24,643 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,643/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH KBK Industries
CPC-NARROW A62C · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KBK Industries, Llc (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kidde Graviner · this assignee

27
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Kidde's Innovation Score is 27.3/100 (top 77% 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.

Where Kidde's grants concentrate

Kidde Graviner Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under A62C (FIRE-FIGHTING). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Kidde sits between KBK Industries, Llc and Klatu Networks, Inc..

Kidde's three-year grant acceleration

Kidde Graviner Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

KBK Industries

11
KBR WYLE Services

11
Keycore Technology

11
KH Neochem

11
Kinamed

11
Kings Mountain In…

11
Kitamura Machinery

11
Klatu Networks

11
Kidde Graviner ◀

11

What this shows Kidde holds 11 patents at rank #24,624, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kidde

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,624 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A62C (Fire-fighting)

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

Kidde's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 Top 77% higher than 23% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kidde Graviner Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	4	36.4%
2021	3	27.3%
2023	1	9.1%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Kidde Graviner Limited patent most?

A62C - FIRE-FIGHTING 10

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 3

B64D - EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT 2

F17C - VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES 1

F15D - FLUID DYNAMICS, i.e. METHODS OR MEANS FOR INFLUENCING THE FLOW OF GASES OR LIQUIDS 1

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 1

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 1

B64C - AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,643

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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.