Is Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation's recent grant velocity is +27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation

Q: Where does Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation ranks #2,543 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation 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 - 153 granted patents across 37 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kwangwoon ranks #2,543 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 153 patents across 37 technology areas.

#2,543
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2543 · Foreign Corporation #2,543 · 153 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 153 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,543/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ballogy
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ballogy, 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 Kwangwoon’s 55.8 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 17.4 pts (31%) Velocity 11.0 pts (20%) Breadth 21.5 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huawei Canada · near

56
Kwangwoon University… · this assignee

56
National SUN… · near

56
Piaggio & C SPA · near

56
University Court of… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kwangwoon's Innovation Score is 55.8/100 (top 7% 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 Kwangwoon?

Each dot is one of Kwangwoon’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). Kwangwoon’s own 9.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kwangwoon's grants concentrate

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 65.4% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (26 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, Kwangwoon sits between Ballogy, Inc. and Runway Blue, LLC.

Kwangwoon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation moved from 29 to 48 grants (1.66x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #339. See the growth leaderboard.

Ballogy

153
Enanta Pharmaceut…

153
Flex

153
Gogoro

153
Korea Institute O…

153
Lonza

153
Motherson Innovat…

153
Runway Blue

153
Kwangwoon Univers… ◀

153

What this shows Kwangwoon holds 153 patents at rank #2,542, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kwangwoon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,542 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kwangwoon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Kwangwoon ranks #203 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

National SUN Yat-sen University 56 Piaggio & C. SPA 56 Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. 56 University Court of the University of St Andrews 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.7 here).

TomTom International B.V. 9.7 avg SimpliSafe, Inc. 9.7 avg Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC 9.7 avg National Chung Shan Institute OF Science AND Technology 9.7 avg

Kwangwoon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	5.2%
2016	13	8.5%
2017	11	7.2%
2018	9	5.9%
2019	11	7.2%
2020	12	7.8%
2021	6	3.9%
2022	10	6.5%
2023	12	7.8%
2024	26	17.0%
2025partial year	35	22.9%

Which technologies does Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 100

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 24

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G11C - Static Stores 6

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

Top 15 of 37 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

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 65.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #2,543 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation against Ballogy, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.8/100 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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