Where does Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. ranks #41,307 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 Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. hold?

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. has an Innovation Score of 34.0 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s patents?

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s patents average 20.5 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 Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. 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

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. focus on?

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s top technology area is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;) with 6 patents, ranking #176 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kulicke ranks #41,307 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 2 technology areas.

#41,307
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.0/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41307 · Foreign Corporation #41,307 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,307/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Krinner Innovation
CPC-NARROW G03F · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Krinner Innovation GmbH (±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 Kulicke’s 34.0 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 6.7 pts (20%) Velocity 10.0 pts (29%) Breadth 5.0 pts (15%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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ABB AB · near

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Fabbrica D'armi… · near

34
Kulicke & Soffa… · this assignee

34
Pharosgen · near

34
Trinity North… · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kulicke's Innovation Score is 34.0/100 (46th 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 Kulicke?

Each dot is one of Kulicke’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). Kulicke’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kulicke's grants concentrate

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Kulicke sits between Krinner Innovation GmbH and Kura Sushi, Inc..

Kulicke's three-year grant acceleration

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. shows 3 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.

Krinner Innovation

6
Krug & Priester &…

6
Krusader

6
Kudos Mechanical

6
Kulicke & Soffa N…

6
Kumoh National In…

6
Kunnskap Medical

6
Kura Sushi

6
Kulicke & Soffa L… ◀

6

What this shows Kulicke holds 6 patents at rank #41,288, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kulicke

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,288 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kulicke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces), Kulicke ranks #176 of 595 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Pharosgen Co., Ltd 34 ABB AB 34 Trinity North American Freight CAR, Inc. 34 Fabbrica D'armi Pietro Beretta S.P.A. 34

Kulicke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	16.7%
2019	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2023	1	16.7%
2024	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. patent most?

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Top 2 of 2 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

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V.'s lead technology class is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #41,307 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kulicke & Soffa Liteq B.V. against Krinner Innovation GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.0/100 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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