Where does Kindred Systems Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kindred Systems Inc. ranks #10,080 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 Kindred Systems Inc. hold?

Kindred Systems Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Kindred Systems Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kindred Systems Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kindred Systems Inc. focus on?

Kindred Systems Inc.'s top technology area is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices) with 23 patents, ranking #82 of 1,442 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kindred Systems Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kindred Systems Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +144% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kindred Systems Inc.'s patents?

Kindred Systems Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Kindred 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

Kindred Systems Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kindred ranks #10,080 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 20 technology areas.

#10,080
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +144%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10080 · US Corporation #10,080 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,080/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KÄRCHER North America
CPC-FOCUS B25J · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +144% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KÄRCHER North America, 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 Kindred’s 43.1 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 12.0 pts (28%) Velocity 2.7 pts (6%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Club Car · near

43
Kindred Systems · this assignee

43
Pfaqutruma Research · near

43
Reliaquest Holdings · near

43
Siluria · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kindred's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Kindred?

Each dot is one of Kindred’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). Kindred’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kindred's grants concentrate

Kindred Systems Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 74.2% of grants classified under B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Kindred sits between Kinki University and Lasertec Corporation.

Kindred's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kindred Systems Inc. moved from 22 to 9 grants (0.41x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kinki University

31
Kyosan Denki

31
Kent Displays

31
Kerr

31
Kuroda Precision…

31
KÄRcher North Ame…

31
Lanxess

31
Lasertec

31
Kindred Systems ◀

31

What this shows Kindred holds 31 patents at rank #10,082, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kindred

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,082 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kindred, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25J (Manipulators), Kindred ranks #82 of 1,442 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Siluria Technologies, Inc. 43 Pfaqutruma Research LLC 43 Club Car, LLC 43 Reliaquest Holdings, LLC 43

Kindred's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Kindred Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	9	29.0%
2020	6	19.4%
2021	7	22.6%
2022	6	19.4%
2023	3	9.7%

Which technologies does Kindred Systems Inc. patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 23

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 19

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Kindred Systems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kindred Systems Inc.'s lead technology class is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25J
Ranked #10,080 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kindred Systems Inc. against Kinki University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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