Where does Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. ranks #29,227 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s patents?

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s patents average 10.0 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 Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.

Q: How many patents does Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. hold?

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

Q: What is Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: How is the Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. 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 - 9 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #29,227 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 22 technology areas.

#29,227
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29227 · Foreign Corporation #29,227 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,227/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kobo Products
CPC-FOCUS B42D · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kobo Products. 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 50.5 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 8.0 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 16.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Firehawk Aerospace · near

51
Idid Tecnologia Ltda · near

51
Korea Minting… · this assignee

51
Meditrina · near

51
Ranpak · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 10.0 claims/patent is at or below the 10.6 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 Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Korea sits between Kobo Products. Inc. and Kotobukiya Fronte Co., Ltd..

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Kobo Products

9
Kochi University

9
Koei Chemical

9
Kordsa Global End…

9
Korea United Pharm

9
Korea Wheel

9
Kosme S R L Unipe…

9
Kotobukiya Fronte

9
Korea Minting Sec… ◀

9

What this shows Korea holds 9 patents at rank #29,184, 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 #29,184 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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 B42D (Books), Korea ranks #56 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Firehawk Aerospace, Inc. 51 Idid Tecnologia Ltda 51 Meditrina, Inc. 51 Ranpak Corp. 51

Korea's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	22.2%
2022	1	11.1%
2023	3	33.3%
2024	2	22.2%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 6

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C22C - Alloys 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 1

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

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

Top 15 of 22 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 Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp.'s lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #29,227 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Minting, Security Printing & Idcard Operating Corp. against Kobo Products. Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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