Where does Korea Meteorological Administration rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Meteorological Administration ranks #14,732 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 Meteorological Administration hold?

Korea Meteorological Administration holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Korea Meteorological Administration's Innovation Score?

Korea Meteorological Administration has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Korea Meteorological Administration's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Meteorological Administration's recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Meteorological Administration's patents?

Korea Meteorological Administration'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.

How is the Korea Meteorological Administration 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 Meteorological Administration

Q: What technology areas does Korea Meteorological Administration focus on?

Korea Meteorological Administration's top technology area is 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) with 13 patents, ranking #427 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 12 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #14,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 12 technology areas.

#14,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14732 · Foreign Corporation #14,732 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Komatsu NTC
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Komatsu NTC Ltd. (±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 49.8 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 10.5 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 12.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mighty Fire Breaker · near

50
Beneq OY · near

50
Hitachi Zosen · near

50
Korea Meteorological… · this assignee

50
Shaanxi Lighte… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 13.0 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.

Where Korea's grants concentrate

Korea Meteorological Administration is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 65% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Korea sits between Komatsu NTC Ltd. and Kverneland Group Ravenna S.R.L..

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

Korea Meteorological Administration shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Komatsu NTC

20
Konica Minolta Ad…

20
Koppers Performan…

20
Korea Institute O…

20
Kostal Kontakt Sy…

20
KT Health

20
KUB

20
Kverneland Group…

20
Korea Meteorologi… ◀

20

What this shows Korea holds 20 patents at rank #14,723, 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 #14,723 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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 G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Korea ranks #427 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Beneq OY 50 Shaanxi Lighte Optoelectronics Material Co., Ltd. 50 Hitachi Zosen Corporation 50 Mighty Fire Breaker LLC 50

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 Meteorological Administration patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2018	2	10.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	5	25.0%
2023	3	15.0%
2024	1	5.0%
2025partial year	2	10.0%

Which technologies does Korea Meteorological Administration patent most?

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 13

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 11

G01W - Meteorology 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 12 of 12 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 Meteorological Administration's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Meteorological Administration's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #14,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Meteorological Administration against Komatsu NTC Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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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