Where does Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research ranks #6,912 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 Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research hold?

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's Innovation Score?

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research focus on?

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 12 patents, ranking #99 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's patents?

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's patents average 11.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research

Q: How is the Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research 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 PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 46 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kuwait ranks #6,912 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 46 technology areas.

#6,912
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 11.2
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6912 · Foreign Corporation #6,912 · 48 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,912/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Innophase
CPC-WIDE C02F · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Innophase, 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 Kuwait’s 47.3 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 13.4 pts (28%) Velocity 3.1 pts (7%) Breadth 24.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 6.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accton Technology · near

47
CoreLogic Solutions · near

47
Kuwait Institute… · this assignee

47
Mitsubishi Engineeri… · near

47
Nokia Shanghai Bell · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kuwait's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 Kuwait?

Each dot is one of Kuwait’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). Kuwait’s own 11.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kuwait's grants concentrate

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Kuwait sits between Innophase, Inc. and LeafFilter North, LLC.

Kuwait's three-year grant acceleration

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Innophase

48
J A Woollam

48
Jrsk

48
Kempharm

48
Kyoto Prefectural…

48
Lion Group

48
Lunit

48
Leaffilter North

48
Kuwait Institute… ◀

48

What this shows Kuwait holds 48 patents at rank #6,911, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kuwait

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,911 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kuwait, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Kuwait ranks #99 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation 47 Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. 47 CoreLogic Solutions, LLC 47 Accton Technology Corporation 47

Kuwait's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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.

View data table

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.2%
2016	4	8.3%
2017	8	16.7%
2018	7	14.6%
2019	10	20.8%
2020	3	6.3%
2021	4	8.3%
2022	3	6.3%
2023	3	6.3%
2024	2	4.2%
2025partial year	2	4.2%

Which technologies does Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 12

B01D - Separation 12

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 7

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 4

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 4

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 3

Top 15 of 46 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

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #6,912 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kuwait Institute FOR Scientific Research against Innophase, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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

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.