Where does Korea Aerospace Research Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Aerospace Research Institute ranks #2,691 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 Korea Aerospace Research Institute hold?

Korea Aerospace Research Institute holds 144 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 99 technology areas.

What is Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Innovation Score?

Korea Aerospace Research Institute has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Korea Aerospace Research Institute focus on?

Korea Aerospace Research Institute's top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 31 patents, ranking #32 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 99 CPC subclasses total.

Is Korea Aerospace Research Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Aerospace Research Institute's recent grant velocity is +55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Korea Aerospace Research Institute's patents?

Korea Aerospace Research Institute's patents average 10.0 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 Korea Aerospace Research Institute 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

Korea Aerospace Research Institute

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 144 granted patents across 99 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #2,691 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 144 patents across 99 technology areas.

#2,691
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: +55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2691 · Foreign Corporation #2,691 · 144 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 144 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,691/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cummins Power…
CPC-WIDE B64U · 99 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cummins Power Generation 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.

How Korea’s 51.3 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 17.2 pts (34%) Velocity 3.1 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (49%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (12%)

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LS Cable & System · near

51
Nanocomp · near

51
Yamaichi · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Korea?

Each dot is one of Korea’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). Korea’s own 10.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Korea's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Korea Aerospace Research Institute received 79 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (+55% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class B64U accounts for 21.5% of the portfolio across 99 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cummins Power Generation Inc. (#2,686) and NBCUniversal Media, LLC (#2,694).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Aerospace Research Institute moved from 64 to 30 grants (0.47x 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 #2,763. See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Korea holds 144 patents at rank #2,690, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Korea

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,690 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Korea, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Korea ranks #32 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

LS Cable & System Ltd. 51 Lantech.com, LLC 51 Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd. 51 Nanocomp Technologies Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.0 here).

Vita-Mix Management Corporation 10.0 avg Takata Corporation 10.0 avg The Braun Corporation 10.0 avg Syngenta Crop Protection AG 10.0 avg

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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

Korea Aerospace Research Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.1%
2016	9	6.3%
2017	14	9.7%
2018	10	6.9%
2019	15	10.4%
2020	35	24.3%
2021	14	9.7%
2022	10	6.9%
2023	10	6.9%
2024	10	6.9%
2025partial year	14	9.7%

Which technologies does Korea Aerospace Research Institute patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 31

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 26

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 20

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 18

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 17

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

H04B - Transmission 8

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 8

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 7

Top 15 of 99 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

Korea Aerospace Research Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Aerospace Research Institute's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 21.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #2,691 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Aerospace Research Institute against Cummins Power Generation Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

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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