USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Government

Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety)

Q: Where does Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) ranks #18,045 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: Is Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety).

Q: How is the Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) 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 - 16 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G06V (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Republic ranks #18,045 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 18 technology areas.

#18,045
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 7.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18045 · Foreign Government #18,045 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNGOV · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,045/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH RANOVUS
CPC-FOCUS G06V · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNGOV Foreign Gov
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ranovus 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Republic OF Korea (n… · this assignee

49
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-SPARSE, TYPE-FRNGOV, SPAN-YRS, BOOK-RICH. Volume places it #18,045 of 50,000; Innovation Score 49.4/100 sits in the top 15% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Ranovus Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) has been granted 16 US utility patents between 2020 and 2025, placing Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) at #18,045 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 18 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 7.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in G06V (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING). As a Foreign Government, Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Republic sits between Ranovus Inc. (16 patents, rank #18,030) and RO5 Inc. (16 patents, rank #18,038) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 49.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Historical data spans 2020 through 2025, with 16 total grants over that period. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Government classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety)'s 7.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 18 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Ranovus

16
Reflex Instrument…

16
Rembrandt Messagi…

16
REP IP

16
Republic OF Korea…

16
Republic Tobacco

16
Rheon LABS

16
RO5

16
Republic OF Korea… ◀

16

What this shows Republic holds 16 patents at rank #18,034, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Republic

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,034 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding)

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

Republic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	12.5%
2021	1	6.3%
2022	4	25.0%
2023	5	31.3%
2024	2	12.5%
2025partial year	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) patent most?

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 5

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 5

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 2

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

B41M - PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING, 1

C23F - NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE ; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL; MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASS C23 AND AT LEAST ONE PROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D 1

G03F - PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; 1

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 1

G02C - SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES 1

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 1

C07F - ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM 1

G16B - BIOINFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR GENETIC OR PROTEIN-RELATED DATA PROCESSING IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1

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 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,045

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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PlainPatent, “Republic OF Korea (national Forensic Service Director Ministry OF THE Interior AND Safety) Patent Portfolio.” Compiled from the underlying federal/official data source; data as of 2015–2025. https://plainpatent.com/company/republic-of-korea-national-forensic-service-director-ministry-of-the-interior-and-safety/

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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

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