Is Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation's recent grant velocity is -75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation

Q: Where does Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation ranks #26,711 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 Research Institute for Industry Cooperation 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 - 10 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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According to USPTO PatentsView, Kwangwoon ranks #26,711 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 1 technology areas.

#26,711
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 9th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.8/100): 5.5
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26711 · Foreign Corporation #26,711 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,711/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Körber Supply Chain
CPC-NARROW H04N · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Körber Supply Chain LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kwangwoon University… · this assignee

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kwangwoon's Innovation Score is 21.8/100 (9th 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.

Where Kwangwoon's grants concentrate

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Kwangwoon sits between Kronebusch Industries, LLC and L2 Drive Inc..

Kwangwoon's three-year grant acceleration

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation shows 2 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.

Kronebusch Indust…

10
Kronos Bio

10
Krysse AS

10
Kustom Signals

10
Kyoritsu Chemical…

10
Kyoto Seisakusho

10
Körber Supply Cha…

10
L2 Drive

10
Kwangwoon Univers… ◀

10

What this shows Kwangwoon holds 10 patents at rank #26,706, 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 #26,706 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Kwangwoon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 9th percentile higher than 9% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Research Institute for Industry Cooperation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	30.0%
2017	3	30.0%
2019	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,711

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

21.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #26,711 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation against Kronebusch Industries, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.8/100 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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