Where does Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG ranks #4,523 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 Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG hold?

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG holds 78 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's patents?

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's patents average 25.3 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 Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG 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

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG focus on?

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's top technology area is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus) with 31 patents, ranking #11 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 78 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leonhard ranks #4,523 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 78 patents across 46 technology areas.

#4,523
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 25.3
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4523 · Foreign Corporation #4,523 · 78 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 78 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,523/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Indian Institute OF…
CPC-WIDE B42D · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Indian Institute OF Technology Bombay (±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 Leonhard’s 56.9 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 15.1 pts (27%) Velocity 2.8 pts (5%) Breadth 24.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ares · near

57
Largan Digital · near

57
Leonhard Kurz… · this assignee

57
In-situ · near

57
Peltbeam · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leonhard's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Leonhard?

Each dot is one of Leonhard’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). Leonhard’s own 25.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Leonhard's grants concentrate

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 39.7% of grants classified under B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Leonhard sits between Indian Institute OF Technology Bombay and Omix-ada, Inc..

Leonhard's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG moved from 31 to 13 grants (0.42x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Indian Institute…

78
Interrad Medical

78
KAO Germany

78
Keygene

78
Marmon Foodservice

78
Maytronics

78
NEC Energy Devices

78
Omix-ada

78
Leonhard Kurz Sti… ◀

78

What this shows Leonhard holds 78 patents at rank #4,523, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leonhard

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,523 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leonhard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B42D (Books), Leonhard ranks #11 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Largan Digital Co., Ltd. 57 Ares Technologies, Inc. 57 Peltbeam Inc. 57 In-situ, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (25.3 here).

Hyperfine Research, Inc. 25.3 avg Enovix Corporation 25.3 avg Radian Memory Systems, Illc 25.3 avg Integrity Security Services LLC 25.3 avg

Leonhard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	5.1%
2016	11	14.1%
2017	8	10.3%
2018	6	7.7%
2019	10	12.8%
2020	10	12.8%
2021	11	14.1%
2022	3	3.8%
2023	4	5.1%
2024	6	7.7%
2025partial year	5	6.4%

Which technologies does Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 31

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 29

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 18

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

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 15

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 7

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 5

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG's lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 39.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #4,523 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG against Indian Institute OF Technology Bombay, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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.

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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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