Where does Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources ranks #2,542 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's Innovation Score?

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources has an Innovation Score of 50.8 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%).

Is Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's recent grant velocity is -82% 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 Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's patents?

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources'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 Geoscience And Mineral Resources

Q: How many patents does Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources hold?

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources holds 153 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources focus on?

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 30 patents, ranking #502 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources 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 - 153 granted patents across 94 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #2,542 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 153 patents across 94 technology areas.

#2,542
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2542 · Foreign Corporation #2,542 · 153 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 153 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,542/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enanta Pharmaceuticals
CPC-WIDE G01N · 94 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enanta Pharmaceuticals, 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 50.8 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 17.4 pts (34%) Velocity 2.7 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (49%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (11%)

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51
BorgWarner Ludwigsburg · near

51
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What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (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 9.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.5 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 Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources received 23 grants versus 125 in 2015–2019 (-82% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 3. Lead class G01N accounts for 19.6% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (#2,539) and Safran Electrical & Power (#2,547).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources moved from 27 to 11 grants (0.41x 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 #2,865. See the growth leaderboard.

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153
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153
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153
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What this shows Korea holds 153 patents at rank #2,543, 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 #2,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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 G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Korea ranks #502 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

ASM Technology Singapore PTE Ltd 51 Ipgate AG 51 Sling Media L.L.C. 51 BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH 51

Similar claim depth

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

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology 9.5 avg Sumida Corporation 9.5 avg Sugino Machine Limited 9.5 avg National University Corporation Yokohama National University 9.5 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.

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Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	20.9%
2016	32	20.9%
2017	28	18.3%
2018	18	11.8%
2019	15	9.8%
2020	7	4.6%
2021	5	3.3%
2022	3	2.0%
2023	3	2.0%
2024	5	3.3%
2025partial year	5	3.3%

Which technologies does Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 23

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 21

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 16

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 13

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 11

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 11

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 8

B01D - Separation 8

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

Top 15 of 94 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 Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 19.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,542 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Institute Of Geoscience And Mineral Resources against Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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.

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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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