Where does Knapp Investment Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Knapp Investment Company Limited ranks #12,077 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 Knapp Investment Company Limited hold?

Knapp Investment Company Limited holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Knapp Investment Company Limited's Innovation Score?

Knapp Investment Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Knapp Investment Company Limited focus on?

Knapp Investment Company Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 14 patents, ranking #2,788 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Knapp Investment Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Knapp Investment Company Limited's recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Knapp Investment Company Limited's patents?

Knapp Investment Company Limited's patents average 18.2 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 Knapp Investment Company 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

Knapp Investment Company Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Knapp ranks #12,077 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 16 technology areas.

#12,077
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12077 · Foreign Corporation #12,077 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,077/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kanto Kagaku
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Knapp’s 38.6 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 11.3 pts (29%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 14.1 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (28%)

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Vemag Maschinenbau · near

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39
CommScope Connectivi… · near

39
Knapp Investment · this assignee

39
Wispry · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Knapp's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Knapp?

Each dot is one of Knapp’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). Knapp’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Knapp's grants concentrate

Knapp Investment Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 56% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Knapp sits between Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha and LA Termoplastic F.B.M. S.R.L..

Knapp's three-year grant acceleration

Knapp Investment Company Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

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What this shows Knapp holds 25 patents at rank #12,077, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Knapp

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,077 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Knapp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Knapp ranks #2,788 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Wispry, Inc. 39 CommScope Connectivity Spain, S.L. 39 Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC 39 Vemag Maschinenbau GmbH 39

Knapp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Knapp Investment Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.0%
2016	6	24.0%
2017	3	12.0%
2018	4	16.0%
2019	2	8.0%
2020	4	16.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2023	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Knapp Investment Company Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 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

Knapp Investment Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Knapp Investment Company Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #12,077 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Knapp Investment Company Limited against Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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