Where does Kinik Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kinik Company ranks #18,807 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 Kinik Company hold?

Kinik Company holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Kinik Company's Innovation Score?

Kinik Company has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kinik Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kinik Company's recent grant velocity is -85% 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 Kinik Company's patents?

Kinik Company's patents average 16.9 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 Kinik Company 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

Kinik Company

Q: What technology areas does Kinik Company focus on?

Kinik Company's top technology area is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents) with 12 patents, ranking #51 of 468 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kinik ranks #18,807 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 16 technology areas.

#18,807
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18807 · Foreign Corporation #18,807 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,807/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH K11 Group
CPC-FOCUS B24B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: K11 Group Limited (±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 Kinik’s 33.8 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 9.6 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kinik · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kinik's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (46th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Kinik?

Each dot is one of Kinik’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). Kinik’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kinik's grants concentrate

Kinik Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Kinik sits between K11 Group Limited and Kronoplus Technical AG.

K11 Group

15
K9 Sport Sack

15
KB Medical

15
King's Flair Deve…

15
Kinnate Biopharma

15
Klinikum Rechts D…

15
Kode Biotech

15
Kronoplus Technic…

15
Kinik ◀

15

What this shows Kinik holds 15 patents at rank #18,798, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kinik

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,798 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B24B (Machines)

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

Kinik's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kinik Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	20.0%
2016	4	26.7%
2017	3	20.0%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Kinik Company patent most?

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 12

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 10

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 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Kinik Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kinik Company's lead technology class is B24B (Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B24B
Ranked #18,807 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kinik Company against K11 Group Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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