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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science ranks #2,209 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 Research Institute OF Standards AND Science hold?

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science holds 178 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 106 technology areas.

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

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science has an Innovation Score of 55.0 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%).

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

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's patents?

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's patents average 11.9 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 Research Institute OF Standards AND Science

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

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 57 patents. Grants appear in 106 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science 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 - 178 granted patents across 106 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Korea ranks #2,209 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 178 patents across 106 technology areas.

#2,209
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.0/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2209 · Foreign Corporation #2,209 · 178 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 178 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,209/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brain
CPC-WIDE G01N · 106 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brain Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beihai HKC Optoelect… · near

55
Korea Research… · this assignee

55
Mimaki Engineering · near

55
Aisin AW · near

55
Omnitek Partners · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Korea's Innovation Score is 55.0/100 (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.

How Korea's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science received 66 grants versus 101 in 2015–2019 (-35% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 28 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 9. Lead class G01N accounts for 32% of the portfolio across 106 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brain Corporation (#2,205) and TE Connectivity Services GMBH (#2,213).

Korea's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science moved from 53 to 39 grants (0.74x 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 #2,031. See the growth leaderboard.

Brain

178
Campagnolo S R L

178
First Solar

178
Guangdong Univers…

178
Morgan Stanley Se…

178
Oxford Nanopore

178
Rockley Photonics

178
TE Connectivity S…

178
Korea Research In… ◀

178

What this shows Korea holds 178 patents at rank #2,209, 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 #2,209 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd. 55 Beihai HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 55 Omnitek Partners LLC 55 Aisin AW Co., Ltd. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

Bobst MEX SA 11.9 avg BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH 11.9 avg Mead Johnson Nutrition Company 11.9 avg LS Electric Co., Ltd. 11.9 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.

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Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.1%
2016	16	9.0%
2017	22	12.4%
2018	28	15.7%
2019	26	14.6%
2020	17	9.6%
2021	10	5.6%
2022	15	8.4%
2023	10	5.6%
2024	14	7.9%
2025partial year	11	6.2%

Which technologies does Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 57

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 32

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 20

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 20

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 17

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 15

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

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

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

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 7

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 7

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 106 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,209

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 32% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,209 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science against Brain Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.0/100 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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