Where does Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology ranks #390 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 Science AND Technology hold?

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology holds 1,136 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 231 technology areas.

What is Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's Innovation Score?

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's recent grant velocity is +1% 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 Institute OF Science AND Technology's patents?

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's patents average 11.8 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 Science AND Technology

Q: What technology areas does Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology focus on?

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 219 patents, ranking #71 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 231 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Korea Institute OF Science AND 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 - 1,136 granted patents across 231 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #390 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,136 patents across 231 technology areas.

#390
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R390 · Foreign Corporation #390 · 1,136 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #390/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisin Seiki
CPC-BROAD Y02E · 231 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (±1 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 63.2 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 24.3 pts (38%) Velocity 6.8 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abb Vie · near

63
Augustine Biomedical… · near

63
Dana Heavy Vehicle… · near

63
Fresenius Medical… · near

63
Korea Institute OF… · this assignee

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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 11.8 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 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 Science AND Technology received 543 grants versus 539 in 2015–2019 (+1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 123 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 84. Lead class Y02E accounts for 19.3% of the portfolio across 231 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (#386) and Molex, LLC (#394).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology moved from 323 to 328 grants (1.01x 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 #1,146. See the growth leaderboard.

Osram Opto Semico…

1,141
Northrop Grumman…

1,140
Cadence Design Sy…

1,138
Aisin Seiki

1,137
Korea Institute O… ◀

1,136
Kimberly-clark Wo…

1,135
Taiyo Yuden

1,135
Orange

1,134
Molex

1,132

What this shows Korea holds 1,136 patents at rank #390, 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 #390 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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 Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Korea ranks #71 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH 63 Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC 63 Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC 63 Abb Vie Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. 11.8 avg Thales 11.8 avg Daicel Corporation 11.8 avg Nidec Sankyo Corporation 11.8 avg

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 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 · 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 Science AND Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	111	9.8%
2016	100	8.8%
2017	106	9.3%
2018	114	10.0%
2019	108	9.5%
2020	123	10.8%
2021	92	8.1%
2022	121	10.7%
2023	123	10.8%
2024	84	7.4%
2025partial year	54	4.8%

Which technologies does Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 219

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 126

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 111

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 110

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 100

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 94

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 94

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 82

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 80

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 78

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 78

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 66

B01D - Separation 54

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 51

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 50

Top 15 of 231 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 Science AND Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 19.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #390 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology against Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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