Where does Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. ranks #29,214 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 Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. hold?

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s patents?

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Klöckner Pentaplast of America, 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

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. focus on?

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s top technology area is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h) with 7 patents, ranking #311 of 1,665 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Klöckner ranks #29,214 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 16 technology areas.

#29,214
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29214 · US Corporation #29,214 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,214/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kessler & & KG
CPC-FOCUS C08J · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kessler & Co. GmbH & Co. KG (±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 Klöckner’s 53.9 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 8.0 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 14.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Klöckner Pentaplast… · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Klöckner's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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 Klöckner?

Each dot is one of Klöckner’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). Klöckner’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Klöckner's grants concentrate

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Klöckner sits between Kessler & Co. GmbH & Co. KG and Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc..

Klöckner's three-year grant acceleration

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Kessler & & KG

9
Kheiron Medical

9
Kiniksa Pharmaceu…

9
Kinshofer

9
Knight

9
Kobe Bio Robotix

9
Kochi Prefectural…

9
Kolberg-pioneer

9
Klöckner Pentapla… ◀

9

What this shows Klöckner holds 9 patents at rank #29,210, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Klöckner

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,210 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Klöckner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	11.1%
2023	2	22.2%
2024	4	44.4%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 7

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 4

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

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 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 3

B01D - Separation 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 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

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.'s lead technology class is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08J
Ranked #29,214 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. against Kessler & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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.

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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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