Where does Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited ranks #17,826 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 Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited hold?

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's Innovation Score?

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) 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 Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's patents?

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's patents average 12.8 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 Kingspan Holdings (IRL) 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

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited

Q: What technology areas does Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited focus on?

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's top technology area is Y02B (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications) with 7 patents, ranking #489 of 2,605 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 23 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: Y02B (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kingspan ranks #17,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 23 technology areas.

#17,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17826 · Foreign Corporation #17,826 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Johnson & Johnson
CPC-FOCUS Y02B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Johnson & Johnson GmbH (±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 Kingspan’s 43.3 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 9.8 pts (23%) Velocity 8.9 pts (21%) Breadth 17.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kingspan Holdings… · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kingspan's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Kingspan?

Each dot is one of Kingspan’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). Kingspan’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kingspan's grants concentrate

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 43.8% of grants classified under Y02B (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kingspan sits between Johnson & Johnson GmbH and Kuzco Lighting LLC.

Kingspan's three-year grant acceleration

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited shows 4 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.

Johnson & Johnson

16
K&H Manufacturing

16
Kask S P A

16
Kawai Musical Ins…

16
KK Wind Solutions…

16
Korea Polytechnic…

16
Kurt Manufacturing

16
Kuzco Lighting

16
Kingspan Holdings… ◀

16

What this shows Kingspan holds 16 patents at rank #17,818, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kingspan

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,818 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02B (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings)

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

Kingspan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.3%
2016	3	18.8%
2018	4	25.0%
2019	1	6.3%
2021	2	12.5%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	1	6.3%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited patent most?

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

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 4

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited's lead technology class is Y02B (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications), 43.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02B
Ranked #17,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kingspan Holdings (IRL) Limited against Johnson & Johnson GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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