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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Food Research Institute ranks #7,873 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 Food Research Institute hold?

Korea Food Research Institute holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Korea Food Research Institute's Innovation Score?

Korea Food Research Institute has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% 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 Food Research Institute focus on?

Korea Food Research Institute's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 21 patents, ranking #1,078 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

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

Korea Food Research Institute's recent grant velocity is +17% 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 Korea Food Research Institute's patents?

Korea Food Research Institute's patents average 8.1 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 Korea Food 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 Food Research Institute

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 32 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #7,873 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 32 technology areas.

#7,873
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 8.1
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7873 · Foreign Corporation #7,873 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,873/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH JX Metals
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: JX Metals Corporation (±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 48.9 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 12.9 pts (26%) Velocity 11.1 pts (23%) Breadth 20.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 4.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chinese Research… · near

49
Invuity · near

49
Korea Food Research… · this assignee

49
Siemens Healthineers… · near

49
Swift Health Systems · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 8.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Korea's grants concentrate

Korea Food Research Institute is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 51.2% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Korea sits between JX Metals Corporation and Lifi Labs, Inc..

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

Korea Food Research Institute shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

JX Metals

41
Kawai Gakki Seisa…

41
TOP

41
Katmai Tech

41
KYE Systems

41
Keyssa Systems

41
Leister

41
Lifi Labs

41
Korea Food Resear… ◀

41

What this shows Korea holds 41 patents at rank #7,872, 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 #7,872 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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 A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Korea ranks #1,078 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Chinese Research Academy OF Environmental Sciences 49 Invuity, Inc. 49 Swift Health Systems Inc. 49 Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics, Inc. 49

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Korea Food Research Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.9%
2016	4	9.8%
2017	3	7.3%
2018	6	14.6%
2019	3	7.3%
2020	4	9.8%
2021	2	4.9%
2022	6	14.6%
2023	3	7.3%
2024	6	14.6%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does Korea Food Research Institute patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 21

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 19

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 17

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 14

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 12

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 9

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 5

A23K - Fodder 4

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 3

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Korea Food Research Institute's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 51.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #7,873 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Food Research Institute against JX Metals Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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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