Where does Kolon Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kolon Industries, Inc. ranks #1,770 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 Kolon Industries, Inc. hold?

Kolon Industries, Inc. holds 230 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 87 technology areas.

What is Kolon Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kolon Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.0 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kolon Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kolon Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -42% 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 Kolon Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Kolon Industries, Inc.'s patents average 11.1 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 Kolon Industries, 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 Foreign Corporation

Kolon Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kolon Industries, Inc. focus on?

Kolon Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 70 patents. Grants appear in 87 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 230 granted patents across 87 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kolon ranks #1,770 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 230 patents across 87 technology areas.

#1,770
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.0/100): 11.1
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1770 · Foreign Corporation #1,770 · 230 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 230 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,770/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH American Megatrends
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 87 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: American Megatrends, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albert-Ludwigs-Unive… · near

55
BL · near

55
Innoscience… · near

55
Kolon Industries · this assignee

55
Vitesco USA · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kolon's Innovation Score is 55.0/100 (top 7% 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.

How Kolon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kolon Industries, Inc. received 75 grants versus 130 in 2015–2019 (-42% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 3. Lead class Y02E accounts for 30.4% of the portfolio across 87 subclasses. Volume neighbours: American Megatrends, Inc. (#1,766) and Wake Forest University Health Sciences (#1,774).

Kolon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kolon Industries, Inc. moved from 57 to 39 grants (0.68x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,202. See the growth leaderboard.

American Megatren…

230
Autel Intelligent…

230
Hefei BOE Joint T…

230
Kemira OYJ

230
Total Research &…

230
Tianjin University

230
Washington State…

230
Wake Forest Unive…

230
Kolon Industries ◀

230

What this shows Kolon holds 230 patents at rank #1,770, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kolon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,770 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kolon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Innoscience (ZHUHAI) Technology Co., Ltd. 55 Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC 55 Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg 55 BL Technologies, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.1 here).

Asmo Co., Ltd. 11.1 avg RAB Lighting Inc. 11.1 avg Aver Information Inc. 11.1 avg Samsonite IP Holdings S.a r.l. 11.1 avg

Kolon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Kolon Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	16.1%
2016	27	11.7%
2017	24	10.4%
2018	21	9.1%
2019	21	9.1%
2020	26	11.3%
2021	10	4.3%
2022	3	1.3%
2023	16	7.0%
2024	20	8.7%
2025partial year	25	10.9%

Which technologies does Kolon Industries, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 70

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 67

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 45

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 45

B01D - Separation 44

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 36

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 36

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 34

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 32

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 31

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 28

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 27

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 24

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 20

Top 15 of 87 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,770

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Kolon Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kolon Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 30.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,770 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kolon Industries, Inc. against American Megatrends, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.0/100 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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