Where does OVD Kinegram AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), OVD Kinegram AG ranks #6,692 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 OVD Kinegram AG hold?

OVD Kinegram AG holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is OVD Kinegram AG's Innovation Score?

OVD Kinegram AG has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is OVD Kinegram AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

OVD Kinegram AG's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 OVD Kinegram AG's patents?

OVD Kinegram AG's patents average 31.5 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 OVD Kinegram AG 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

OVD Kinegram AG

Q: What technology areas does OVD Kinegram AG focus on?

OVD Kinegram AG'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 44 patents, ranking #8 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 31 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, OVD ranks #6,692 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 31 technology areas.

#6,692
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 31.5
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6692 · Foreign Corporation #6,692 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,692/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Northrop Grumman…
CPC-FOCUS B42D · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 31.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, 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 OVD’s 50.3 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 13.6 pts (27%) Velocity 2.0 pts (4%) Breadth 19.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Federal-Mogul · near

50
Ferag · near

50
Ludwig Institute… · near

50
OVD Kinegram · this assignee

50
Thales Avionics · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows OVD's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 OVD?

Each dot is one of OVD’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). OVD’s own 31.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where OVD's grants concentrate

OVD Kinegram AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 88% 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 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, OVD sits between Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc. and Politecnico DI Torino.

OVD's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, OVD Kinegram AG moved from 20 to 6 grants (0.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Northrop Grumman…

50
Ocean's King Ligh…

50
Omax

50
Ontex Group

50
Oceanit Laborator…

50
Oy Halton Group

50
Playcore Wisconsin

50
Politecnico DI To…

50
OVD Kinegram ◀

50

What this shows OVD holds 50 patents at rank #6,689, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near OVD

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,689 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for OVD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B42D (Books), OVD ranks #8 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Thales Avionics, Inc. 50 Ludwig Institute FOR Cancer Research Ltd 50 Ferag AG 50 Federal-Mogul LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (31.5 here).

CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. 31.7 avg Federal Express Corporation 31.8 avg D5ai LLC 31.8 avg Foamix Pharamaceuticals Ltd. 31.2 avg

OVD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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OVD Kinegram AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.0%
2016	3	6.0%
2017	8	16.0%
2018	10	20.0%
2019	6	12.0%
2020	6	12.0%
2021	8	16.0%
2022	2	4.0%
2023	3	6.0%
2024	1	2.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does OVD Kinegram AG 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 44

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 19

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 10

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 8

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 4

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Top 15 of 31 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

OVD Kinegram AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

OVD Kinegram AG'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), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #6,692 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare OVD Kinegram AG against Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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

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