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Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 18 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: E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kohler ranks #10,373 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 18 technology areas.

#10,373
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100)
10.1
avg claims per patent
+67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10373 · Foreign Corporation #10,373 · 30 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
  • UPPER-Q #10,373/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Isowa
  • CPC-FOCUS E03D · 18 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-SURGE +67% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa (±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 Kohler’s 50.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Kohler

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Kohler's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Kohler?

Each dot is one of Kohler’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). Kohler’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Kohler vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 29.93030.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Kuka Systems GmbH - 30, 20.17Kuka SystemsKabushiki Kaisha Isowa - 30, 9.93IsowaKao USA Inc. - 30, 8.9Kao USAKeystone Tower Systems, Inc. - 30, 14.8Keystone Tower Sy…Kolcraft Enterprises, Inc. - 30, 20.8Kolcraft Enterpri…Koyo Bearings North America LLC - 30, 14.43Koyo Bearings Nor…Kwik Tek, Inc. - 30, 3.47Kwik TekLasermax Inc. - 30, 15.47LasermaxKohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. - 30, 10.13Kohler (China) In…
Kohler vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Kohler's grants concentrate

Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Kohler sits between Kuka Systems GmbH and Lasermax Inc..

Kohler's three-year grant acceleration

Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Who files at Kohler's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Kohler holds 30 patents at rank #10,375, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Kohler

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,375 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kohler, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing Devices), Kohler ranks #26 of 128 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Jive Software, Inc. 50 GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH 50 Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 50 Discover Financial Services 50

Kohler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 1 3.3%
2017 1 3.3%
2018 4 13.3%
2019 3 10.0%
2021 2 6.7%
2022 1 3.3%
2023 3 10.0%
2024 9 30.0%
2025partial year 6 20.0%

Which technologies does Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is E03D (Water-closets OR Urinals With Flushing DEVICES; Flushing Valves Therefor), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03D
  • Ranked #10,373 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd. against Kuka Systems GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.