Where does Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology ranks #3,737 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 Ocean Science & Technology hold?

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

What is Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's Innovation Score?

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% 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 Ocean Science & Technology focus on?

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 22 patents, ranking #29 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

Is Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Ocean Science & Technology's patents?

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's patents average 8.6 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 Ocean Science & Technology

Q: How is the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & 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 - 97 granted patents across 98 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #3,737 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 98 technology areas.

#3,737
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3737 · Foreign Corporation #3,737 · 97 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,737/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eppendorf
CPC-WIDE B63B · 98 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eppendorf AG (±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 51.9 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 15.8 pts (31%) Velocity 5.9 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 5.1 pts (10%)

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Nite Ize · near

52
Porsche · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 8.6 claims/patent is at or below the 18.8 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 Ocean Science & Technology received 40 grants versus 49 in 2015–2019 (-18% equal-window velocity, at median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class B63B accounts for 22.7% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Eppendorf AG (#3,732) and New York Air Brake LLC (#3,740).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology moved from 26 to 23 grants (0.89x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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97
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97
Immunolight

97
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97
Lord

97
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97
Nuvasive Speciali…

97
New York Air Brake

97
Korea Institute o… ◀

97

What this shows Korea holds 97 patents at rank #3,736, 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 #3,736 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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 B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels), Korea ranks #29 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Nite Ize, Inc. 52 Foxconn (KUNSHAN) Computer Connector Co., Ltd. 52 Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. 52 Porsche AG 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.6 here).

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 8.6 avg Southwest Jiaotong University 8.6 avg Fujitsu Client Computing Limited 8.6 avg Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. 8.6 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 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 Ocean Science & Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.1%
2016	15	15.5%
2017	15	15.5%
2018	7	7.2%
2019	9	9.3%
2020	12	12.4%
2021	5	5.2%
2022	8	8.2%
2023	7	7.2%
2024	8	8.2%
2025partial year	8	8.2%

Which technologies does Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 22

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 9

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

C07K - Peptides 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

C12Y - Enzymes 5

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 5

Top 15 of 98 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 Ocean Science & Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 22.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #3,737 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology against Eppendorf AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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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