Where does Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute ranks #1,888 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 Atomic Energy Research Institute hold?

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute holds 213 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's Innovation Score?

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has an Innovation Score of 57.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's patents?

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's patents average 10.9 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 Atomic Energy 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 Atomic Energy Research Institute

Q: What technology areas does Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute focus on?

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 87 patents, ranking #158 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 213 granted patents across 120 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, Korea ranks #1,888 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 213 patents across 120 technology areas.

#1,888
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.1/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1888 · Foreign Corporation #1,888 · 213 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 213 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,888/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brown University
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 120 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brown University (±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 57.1 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 18.5 pts (32%) Velocity 7.0 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AIR Cruisers · near

57
Bell Sports · near

57
Korea Atomic Energy… · this assignee

57
SKC · near

57
Warner Bros… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 57.1/100 (top 5% 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 10.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 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 Atomic Energy Research Institute received 95 grants versus 113 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 28 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 12. Lead class Y02E accounts for 40.8% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brown University (#1,884) and Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc. (#1,892).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute moved from 56 to 59 grants (1.05x 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 #1,053. See the growth leaderboard.

Brown University

213
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213
Danisco US

213
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213
LOS Alamos Nation…

213
MTD Products

213
Netskope

213
Pratt Corrugated…

213
Korea Atomic Ener… ◀

213

What this shows Korea holds 213 patents at rank #1,888, 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 #1,888 in granted patent volume.

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

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 Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Korea ranks #158 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Bell Sports, Inc. 57 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 57 SKC Co., Ltd. 57 AIR Cruisers Company, LLC 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.9 here).

Kinpo Electronics, Inc. 10.9 avg NR Electric Co., Ltd. 10.9 avg Tien Hsin Industries Co., Ltd. 10.9 avg Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc. 10.9 avg

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 Atomic Energy Research Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	12.7%
2016	18	8.5%
2017	28	13.1%
2018	20	9.4%
2019	20	9.4%
2020	24	11.3%
2021	12	5.6%
2022	27	12.7%
2023	17	8.0%
2024	15	7.0%
2025partial year	5	2.3%

Which technologies does Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 87

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 78

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 30

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 27

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 24

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

C22C - Alloys 15

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 15

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 14

B01D - Separation 14

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 10

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 8

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 8

Top 15 of 120 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 Atomic Energy Research Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 40.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,888 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute against Brown University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.1/100 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

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