Where does Koninklijke KPN N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koninklijke KPN N.V. ranks #1,760 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 Koninklijke KPN N.V. hold?

Koninklijke KPN N.V. holds 231 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Koninklijke KPN N.V. has an Innovation Score of 51.7 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Koninklijke KPN N.V. focus on?

Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 133 patents, ranking #300 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s recent grant velocity is +23% 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 Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s patents?

Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s patents average 16.2 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 Koninklijke KPN N.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

Koninklijke KPN N.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 231 granted patents across 25 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Koninklijke ranks #1,760 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 231 patents across 25 technology areas.

#1,760
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.7/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1760 · Foreign Corporation #1,760 · 231 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 231 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,760/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Citibank N A
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Citibank, N.A. (±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 Koninklijke’s 51.7 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 18.8 pts (36%) Velocity 5.5 pts (11%) Breadth 17.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akoustis · near

52
Cognitive Systems · near

52
Koninklijke KPN · this assignee

52
Loon · near

52
Tepha · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koninklijke's Innovation Score is 51.7/100 (top 11% 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 Koninklijke?

Each dot is one of Koninklijke’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). Koninklijke’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Koninklijke's grants concentrate

Koninklijke KPN N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 57.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (32 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2023. By volume, Koninklijke sits between Citibank, N.A. and Agency FOR Defense Development.

Koninklijke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Koninklijke KPN N.V. moved from 78 to 64 grants (0.82x 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 #1,761. See the growth leaderboard.

Citibank N A

231
Genius Optical

231
Juul Labs

231
KPN Innovations

231
Nite Ize

231
SMA Solar Technol…

231
THK

231
Koninklijke KPN ◀

231
Agency FOR Defens…

230

What this shows Koninklijke holds 231 patents at rank #1,761, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koninklijke

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,761 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koninklijke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Koninklijke ranks #300 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Akoustis, Inc. 52 Tepha, Inc. 52 Cognitive Systems Corp. 52 Loon LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Biomerieux, Inc. 16.2 avg Abiomed, Inc. 16.2 avg M-I L.L.C. 16.2 avg Meso Scale Technologies, LLC. 16.2 avg

Koninklijke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Koninklijke KPN N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	6.1%
2016	17	7.4%
2017	23	10.0%
2018	18	7.8%
2019	24	10.4%
2020	23	10.0%
2021	31	13.4%
2022	32	13.9%
2023	12	5.2%
2024	20	8.7%
2025partial year	17	7.4%

Which technologies does Koninklijke KPN N.V. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 133

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 96

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 67

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 7

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 4

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 3

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 3

H04B - Transmission 3

Top 15 of 25 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

Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koninklijke KPN N.V.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 57.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,760 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koninklijke KPN N.V. against Citibank, N.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.7/100 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

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