Where does Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials ranks #1,939 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 Institute OF Machinery & Materials hold?

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 167 technology areas.

What is Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's Innovation Score?

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Institute OF Machinery & Materials focus on?

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 27 patents, ranking #433 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 167 CPC subclasses total.

Is Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's recent grant velocity is -42% 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 Machinery & Materials's patents?

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's patents average 11.4 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 Institute OF Machinery & Materials 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 Institute OF Machinery & Materials

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 167 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #1,939 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 167 technology areas.

#1,939
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1939 · Foreign Corporation #1,939 · 207 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,939/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cole Haan
CPC-WIDE Y10T · 167 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cole Haan LLC (±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 54.8 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 18.4 pts (34%) Velocity 4.5 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dublin City University · near

55
NxStage Medical · near

55
Curiouser Products · near

55
Korea Institute OF… · this assignee

55
Seco Tools AB · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 11.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 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.

How Korea's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials received 69 grants versus 120 in 2015–2019 (-42% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 10. Lead class Y10T accounts for 13% of the portfolio across 167 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cole Haan LLC (#1,935) and Sintai Optical (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. (#1,943).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials moved from 50 to 34 grants (0.68x 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 #2,208. See the growth leaderboard.

Cole Haan

207
Fujitsu General

207
Fujitsu Optical C…

207
Ideal Industries…

207
Magna Closures

207
Safran Nacelles

207
Showa

207
Sintai Optical (S…

207
Korea Institute O… ◀

207

What this shows Korea holds 207 patents at rank #1,939, 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 #1,939 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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 Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Korea ranks #433 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Curiouser Products Inc. 55 Seco Tools AB 55 NxStage Medical, Inc. 55 Dublin City University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation 11.4 avg Pegatron Corporation 11.4 avg Qingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd. 11.4 avg Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 11.4 avg

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 Institute OF Machinery & Materials patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	33	15.9%
2016	24	11.6%
2017	26	12.6%
2018	22	10.6%
2019	15	7.2%
2020	19	9.2%
2021	16	7.7%
2022	12	5.8%
2023	10	4.8%
2024	12	5.8%
2025partial year	18	8.7%

Which technologies does Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 27

C22C - Alloys 22

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 17

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

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

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 12

B01D - Separation 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 11

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 10

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

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 10

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 10

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 9

Top 15 of 167 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 Machinery & Materials's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 13% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #1,939 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Institute OF Machinery & Materials against Cole Haan LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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.

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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