Where does Kings Mountain International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kings Mountain International, Inc. ranks #24,646 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 Kings Mountain International, Inc. hold?

Kings Mountain International, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kings Mountain International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kings Mountain International, Inc.'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 Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s patents?

Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s patents average 10.0 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 Kings Mountain International, 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

Kings Mountain International, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kings Mountain International, Inc. focus on?

Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s top technology area is C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 13 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: C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kings ranks #24,646 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 13 technology areas.

#24,646
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24646 · US Corporation #24,646 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,646/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Keycore Technology
CPC-FOCUS C25D · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Keycore Technology Corp. (±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
Kings Mountain… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kings's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th percentile 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 Kings's grants concentrate

Kings Mountain International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Kings sits between Keycore Technology Corp. and Kno2 LLC.

Kings's three-year grant acceleration

Kings Mountain International, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Keycore Technology

11
KH Neochem

11
Kidde Graviner

11
Kinamed

11
Kitamura Machinery

11
Klatu Networks

11
KMC Chain Industr…

11
Kno2

11
Kings Mountain In… ◀

11

What this shows Kings holds 11 patents at rank #24,626, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kings

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,626 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Product…)

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

Kings's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% 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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Kings Mountain International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Kings Mountain International, Inc. patent most?

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 5

C25F - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Removal OF Materials From OBJECTS; Apparatus Therefor 4

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,646

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.8 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

Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kings Mountain International, Inc.'s lead technology class is C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C25D
Ranked #24,646 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kings Mountain International, Inc. against Keycore Technology Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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

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