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Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kostal ranks #14,733 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 7 technology areas.

#14,733
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.9/100)
14.0
avg claims per patent
-67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14733 · Foreign Corporation #14,733 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
  • MID-PACK #14,733/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Katz Water Tech
  • CPC-NARROW H01R · 7 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 34.9/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -67% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Katz Water Tech LLC (±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 Kostal’s 34.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Kostal

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Kostal's Innovation Score is 34.9/100 (49th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Kostal?

Each dot is one of Kostal’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). Kostal’s own 14.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Kostal vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 19.919.92020.1 051015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc. - 20, 13Konica Minolta Ad…Koppers Performance Chemicals, Inc. - 20, 26Koppers Performan…Korea Institute OF Construction Technology - 20, 8.7Korea Institute O…Korea Meteorological Administration - 20, 11.8Korea Meteorologi…KT Health, LLC - 20, 5.6KT HealthKUB Technologies Inc. - 20, 20.75KUBKverneland Group Ravenna S.R.L. - 20, 15.5Kverneland Group…Katz Water Tech LLC - 20, 24.1Katz Water TechKostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH - 20, 14Kostal Kontakt Sy…
Kostal vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Kostal's grants concentrate

Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Kostal sits between Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc. and Katz Water Tech LLC.

Kostal's three-year grant acceleration

Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Who files at Kostal's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Kostal holds 20 patents at rank #14,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Kostal

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Kostal's primary technology class.

Kostal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 2 10.0%
2016 2 10.0%
2017 7 35.0%
2018 3 15.0%
2019 1 5.0%
2020 1 5.0%
2021 1 5.0%
2022 1 5.0%
2023 2 10.0%

Which technologies does Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH patent most?

Top 7 of 7 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

Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
  • Ranked #14,733 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH against Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 34.9/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.