Where does Kumho Tire Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kumho Tire Co., Inc. ranks #12,080 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 Kumho Tire Co., Inc. hold?

Kumho Tire Co., Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kumho Tire Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.2 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s patents?

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s patents average 5.8 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 Kumho Tire Co., Inc. 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

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kumho Tire Co., Inc. focus on?

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 16 patents, ranking #37 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 13 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kumho ranks #12,080 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 13 technology areas.

#12,080
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.2/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12080 · Foreign Corporation #12,080 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,080/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jive Software
CPC-FOCUS B60C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jive Software, Inc. (±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 Kumho’s 30.2 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 11.3 pts (37%) Velocity 2.7 pts (9%) Breadth 12.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tipping Point Group · near

30
Advantek International · near

30
Biomarck Pharmaceuti… · near

30
Kumho Tire · this assignee

30
Tianjin Institute… · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kumho's Innovation Score is 30.2/100 (33rd 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 Kumho?

Each dot is one of Kumho’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). Kumho’s own 5.8 claims/patent is at or below the 9.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kumho's grants concentrate

Kumho Tire Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kumho sits between Jive Software, Inc. and Kenvue Brands LLC.

Kumho's three-year grant acceleration

Kumho Tire Co., Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Jive Software

25
Kimura Kohki

25
Klean Kanteen

25
Korea GAS

25
KWS Saat SE

25
Kobe Seiko Sho (K…

25
Kanto Kagaku

25
Kenvue Brands

25
Kumho Tire ◀

25

What this shows Kumho holds 25 patents at rank #12,070, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kumho

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,070 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kumho, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60C (Vehicle Tyres), Kumho ranks #37 of 319 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

Biomarck Pharmaceuticals Ltd. 30 Advantek International Corporation 30 Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research Co., Ltd. 30 Tipping Point Group, LLC 30

Kumho's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% 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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Kumho Tire Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.0%
2016	2	8.0%
2017	6	24.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	4	16.0%
2020	4	16.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Kumho Tire Co., Inc. patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 16

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kumho Tire Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #12,080 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kumho Tire Co., Inc. against Jive Software, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.2/100 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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