Where does Umicore Korea Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Umicore Korea Ltd. ranks #5,640 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 Umicore Korea Ltd. hold?

Umicore Korea Ltd. holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Umicore Korea Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Umicore Korea Ltd. 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%).

What technology areas does Umicore Korea Ltd. focus on?

Umicore Korea Ltd.'s top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 61 patents, ranking #114 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Umicore Korea Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Umicore Korea Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +136% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Umicore Korea Ltd.'s patents?

Umicore Korea Ltd.'s patents average 13.1 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 Umicore Korea Ltd. 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

Umicore Korea Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Umicore ranks #5,640 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 12 technology areas.

#5,640
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +136%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5640 · Foreign Corporation #5,640 · 61 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,640/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Industry &…
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +136% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) (±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 Umicore’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 14.3 pts (35%) Velocity 6.0 pts (15%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Calithera Biosciences · near

40
GE Healthcare AS · near

40
Mesoblast Internatio… · near

40
Personics Holdings · near

40
Umicore Korea · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Umicore'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 Umicore?

Each dot is one of Umicore’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). Umicore’s own 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Umicore's grants concentrate

Umicore Korea Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Umicore sits between TPK Touch Solutions Inc. and Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS.

Umicore's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Umicore Korea Ltd. moved from 21 to 19 grants (0.91x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

TPK Touch Solutio…

61
Trumpf Maschinen…

61
The Industry & Ac…

61
Tyfone

61
UNL Holdings

61
University of Mac…

61
Valens Semiconduc…

61
Vetco Gray Scandi…

61
Umicore Korea ◀

61

What this shows Umicore holds 61 patents at rank #5,638, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Umicore

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,638 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Umicore, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Umicore ranks #114 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

GE Healthcare AS 40 Mesoblast International Sàrl 40 Personics Holdings, LLC 40 Calithera Biosciences, Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Airbus DS GMBH 13.1 avg United States Endoscopy Group, Inc. 13.1 avg Elmos Semiconductor SE 13.1 avg Semiconductor Manufacturing (Beijing) International Corporation 13.1 avg

Umicore'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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Umicore Korea Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.6%
2018	6	9.8%
2019	7	11.5%
2020	10	16.4%
2021	4	6.6%
2022	10	16.4%
2023	4	6.6%
2024	5	8.2%
2025partial year	14	23.0%

Which technologies does Umicore Korea Ltd. patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 61

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 60

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 50

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 48

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 1

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Umicore Korea Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Umicore Korea Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #5,640 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Umicore Korea Ltd. against TPK Touch Solutions Inc., 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

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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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