Where does Stichting Katholieke Universiteit rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stichting Katholieke Universiteit ranks #10,769 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 Stichting Katholieke Universiteit hold?

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's Innovation Score?

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit has an Innovation Score of 40.4 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's patents?

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's patents average 15.1 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 Stichting Katholieke Universiteit 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

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit

Q: What technology areas does Stichting Katholieke Universiteit focus on?

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 10 patents, ranking #1,018 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Stichting ranks #10,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 20 technology areas.

#10,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10769 · Foreign Corporation #10,769 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Socomec
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Socomec (±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 Stichting’s 40.4 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 11.7 pts (29%) Velocity 3.7 pts (9%) Breadth 15.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing BOE… · near

40
Guangzhou Kugou… · near

40
Harvest International · near

40
Microsemi Storage… · near

40
Stichting Katholieke… · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stichting's Innovation Score is 40.4/100 (top 36% 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 Stichting?

Each dot is one of Stichting’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). Stichting’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stichting's grants concentrate

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 34.5% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Stichting sits between Socomec and Super Group Semiconductor Co., Ltd..

Stichting's three-year grant acceleration

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

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29
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29

What this shows Stichting holds 29 patents at rank #10,752, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stichting

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,752 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stichting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Stichting ranks #1,018 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Guangzhou Kugou Computer Technology Co., Ltd. 40 Harvest International, Inc. 40 Beijing BOE Multimedia Technology Co., Ltd. 40 Microsemi Storage Solutions (U.S.), Inc. 40

Stichting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Stichting Katholieke Universiteit patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	10.3%
2017	5	17.2%
2018	7	24.1%
2019	4	13.8%
2020	2	6.9%
2021	3	10.3%
2022	2	6.9%
2023	1	3.4%
2024	2	6.9%

Which technologies does Stichting Katholieke Universiteit patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 10

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

C07K - Peptides 3

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 3

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 3

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stichting Katholieke Universiteit's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 34.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #10,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stichting Katholieke Universiteit against Socomec, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.4/100 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

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