Where does Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology ranks #6,042 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology's recent grant velocity is +185% 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 Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology's patents?

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology's patents average 9.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology

Q: How is the Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 75 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: E04C (STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #6,042 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 75 technology areas.

#6,042
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.6/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent: +185%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6042 · Foreign Corporation #6,042 · 56 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,042/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Insyde Software
CPC-WIDE E04C · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +185% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Insyde Software Corp. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exelis · near

52
Affectiva · near

52
Frieslandcampina Ned… · near

52
Korea Institute OF C… · this assignee

52
Subcom · near

52
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,042 of 50,000; Innovation Score 51.6/100 sits in the top 11% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Insyde Software Corp. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology has been granted 56 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology at #6,042 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 75 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 9.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in E04C (STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS). As a Foreign Corporation, Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Korea sits between Insyde Software Corp. (56 patents, rank #6,037) and Land O'lakes, Inc. (56 patents, rank #6,045) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 51.6/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 37 grants, compared with 13 in the 2015–2019 window, a +185% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology's 9.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 75 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Insyde Software

56
JCBD

56
Johnson Controls…

56
Kba-notasys

56
KX

56
Knauf Insulation…

56
LF Centennial

56
Land O'lakes

56
Korea Institute O… ◀

56

What this shows Korea holds 56 patents at rank #6,041, 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 #6,041 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04C (Structural Elements)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Subcom, Llc 52 Affectiva, Inc. 52 Frieslandcampina Nederland B.v. 52 Exelis Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.5 here).

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources 9.5 avg Eugene Technology Co., Ltd. 9.5 avg National University Corporation Yokohama National University 9.5 avg Sugino Machine Limited 9.5 avg

Korea'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 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.8%
2017	1	1.8%
2018	5	8.9%
2019	6	10.7%
2020	7	12.5%
2021	8	14.3%
2022	9	16.1%
2023	10	17.9%
2024	3	5.4%
2025partial year	6	10.7%

Which technologies does Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology patent most?

E04C - STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS 13

C04B - LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE 9

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS 9

E04B - GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS 9

B28B - SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER 6

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 5

E04H - BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL 4

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS ; UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES 4

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 4

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 3

E01F - ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE 3

E01C - CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING 3

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

B66B - ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS 3

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,042

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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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