Where does K/S Himpp rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), K/S Himpp ranks #22,875 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 K/S Himpp hold?

K/S Himpp holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is K/S Himpp's Innovation Score?

K/S Himpp has an Innovation Score of 33.4 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is K/S Himpp's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

K/S Himpp's recent grant velocity is +20% 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 K/S Himpp's patents?

K/S Himpp's patents average 17.9 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.

How is the K/S Himpp 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

K/S Himpp

Q: What technology areas does K/S Himpp focus on?

K/S Himpp's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 10 patents, ranking #266 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 7 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, K/s ranks #22,875 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 7 technology areas.

#22,875
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.4/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22875 · Foreign Corporation #22,875 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,875/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Johnson Controls-SAF…
CPC-NARROW H04R · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Johnson Controls-SAFT Advanced Power Solutions 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 K/s’s 33.4 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 8.9 pts (27%) Velocity 4.4 pts (13%) Breadth 9.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
K/S Himpp · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows K/s's Innovation Score is 33.4/100 (44th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for K/s?

Each dot is one of K/s’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). K/s’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

K/s vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where K/s's grants concentrate

K/S Himpp is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, K/s sits between Johnson & Johnson Medical GMBH and KC IP Holdings, LLC.

K/s's three-year grant acceleration

K/S Himpp shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Johnson & Johnson…

12
Johnson Controls-…

12
Jointvue

12
Jozef Stefan Inst…

12
Somic Ishikawa

12
Kalamazoo Holdings

12
KAO

12
KC IP Holdings

12
K/S Himpp ◀

12

What this shows K/S holds 12 patents at rank #22,842, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near K/S

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,842 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in K/S's primary technology class.

K/s's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% 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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K/S Himpp patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	8.3%
2019	4	33.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	4	33.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does K/S Himpp patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

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

K/S Himpp's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

K/S Himpp's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #22,875 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare K/S Himpp against Johnson & Johnson Medical GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.4/100 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

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