Where does Kolster Holding B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kolster Holding B.V. ranks #5,602 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 Kolster Holding B.V. hold?

Kolster Holding B.V. holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Kolster Holding B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Kolster Holding B.V. has an Innovation Score of 19.1 out of 100 (6th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kolster Holding B.V. focus on?

Kolster Holding B.V. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Kolster Holding B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kolster Holding B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +7% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kolster Holding B.V.'s patents?

Kolster Holding B.V.'s patents average 1.0 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 Kolster Holding B.V. 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

Kolster Holding B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 0 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.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kolster ranks #5,602 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 0 technology areas.

#5,602
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 6th percentile
by Innovation Score (19.1/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5602 · Foreign Corporation #5,602 · 61 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,602/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infinidat
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 19.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infinidat Ltd. (±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 Kolster’s 19.1 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 14.3 pts (74%) Velocity 4.3 pts (22%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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AO Ether Optronics… · near

19
Hydrangea Breeders… · near

19
Kolster Holding B V · this assignee

19
Performance Systematix · near

19
HK Marketing LC · near

19
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kolster's Innovation Score is 19.1/100 (6th 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 Kolster?

Each dot is one of Kolster’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). Kolster’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kolster's grants concentrate

Kolster Holding B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Kolster sits between Infinidat Ltd. and Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd..

Kolster's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kolster Holding B.V. moved from 25 to 16 grants (0.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Infinidat

61
Innovaplant Zierp…

61
Inpria

61
Institute for Res…

61
Kraft Foods R & D

61
Kimball Internati…

61
Lesaffre ET Compa…

61
Lone Gull Holdings

61
Kolster Holding B… ◀

61

What this shows Kolster holds 61 patents at rank #5,599, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kolster

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,599 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (19 here).

Performance Systematix LLC 19 Hydrangea Breeders Association B.V. 19 HK Marketing LC 19 AO Ether Optronics (SHENZHEN) Limited 19

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.0 here).

Garden Genetics LLC 1.0 avg StreetCar ORV, LLC 1.0 avg Rolex Watch U.S.A., Inc. 1.0 avg Chelsea Building Products, Inc. 1.0 avg

Kolster's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 6th percentile higher than 6% 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.

View data table

Kolster Holding B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.3%
2016	2	3.3%
2017	5	8.2%
2018	8	13.1%
2019	11	18.0%
2020	9	14.8%
2021	5	8.2%
2022	6	9.8%
2023	3	4.9%
2024	7	11.5%
2025partial year	3	4.9%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Kolster Holding B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #5,602 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kolster Holding B.V. against Infinidat Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 19.1/100 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

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.