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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. ranks #41,308 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 Netherlands B.V. hold?

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

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

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. has an Innovation Score of 50.8 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. focus on?

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V.'s top technology area is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10) with 6 patents, ranking #1,253 of 3,373 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V..

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

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V.'s patents average 23.5 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 Netherlands 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 Netherlands B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kulicke ranks #41,308 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 8 technology areas.

#41,308
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41308 · Foreign Corporation #41,308 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,308/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Krug & Priester & KG
CPC-NARROW H01L · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG (±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 50.8 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 (13%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 10.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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BrowserStack · near

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51
Kulicke & Soffa… · this assignee

51
Harbinger Motors · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kulicke's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (top 12% 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 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 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 Netherlands B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Kulicke sits between Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG and Kustom Cycles, Inc..

Kulicke's three-year grant acceleration

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Kulicke holds 6 patents at rank #41,289, 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 #41,289 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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 H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), Kulicke ranks #1,253 of 3,373 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Harbinger Motors Inc. 51 Zoomlion Heavy Industry NA, Inc. 51 BrowserStack Limited 51 K. Hartwall OY AB 51

Kulicke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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

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

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 6

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 8 of 8 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 Netherlands B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
Ranked #41,308 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kulicke & Soffa Netherlands B.V. against Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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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