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Kia Motors — 8,228 Patents

Rank (All Time): #95 of 105,732Top 1%
7,429 inventors
8,228 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 1,398 patents in 2020.peak 1,3981996: 1 patents19961997: 11 patents1998: 42 patents1999: 7 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 9 patents2002: 14 patents20022003: 15 patents2004: 8 patents2005: 9 patents20052006: 19 patents2007: 18 patents2008: 20 patents20082009: 42 patents2010: 51 patents2011: 123 patents20112012: 154 patents2013: 194 patents2014: 268 patents20142015: 258 patents2016: 298 patents2017: 303 patents20172018: 387 patents2019: 997 patents2020: 1,398 patents20202021: 1,243 patents2022: 1,374 patents2023: 753 patents20232024: 182 patents2025: 21 patents2025

Top Inventors at Kia Motors All Time

Showing 1–50 of 7,429 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Seong Wook Hwang 122
2 Ki Tae Kim 98
3 Hyun Sik Kwon 95
#4 Seongwook Ji 89
#5 Jin Ho Kim 82
#6 Jong Sool Park 75
#7 Jong Soo Kim 70
#8 Dong Eun Cha 69
#9 Jae Chang Kook 68
#10 Kyeong Hun Lee 65
#11 Wonmin Cho 62
#12 Man Ju Oh 60
#13 Jae Yeon Kim 59
#13 Ki Hong Lee 59
#15 Jae Woong Kim 55
#15 Joon Young Park 55
#17 Jeong Soo Eo 51
#18 Byeong Wook Jeon 50
#18 Eun Sik Kim 50
#18 Juhyeon Park 50
#21 Seung Hyeok Chang 49
#22 Jin Ho Hwang 48
#22 Sang Shin Lee 48
#22 Yong Uk Shin 48
#25 Sang Joon Kim 47
#25 Seung Wook Park 47
#27 Sang Heon Lee 46
#28 Ilhan Yoo 45
#29 Chon Ok Kim 42
#29 Jung Wook Lim 42
#29 Seon Chae Na 42
#29 So La Chung 42
#33 Jee Wook Huh 40
#33 Woo Young Lee 40
#35 Dong Hee Han 39
#35 Yun Seok Oh 39
#37 Dong Hwan Hwang 38
#37 Jong Min Park 38
#37 Sung Hyun Cho 38
#40 Nak Kyoung Kong 36
#41 Dae Ig Jung 35
#41 Dong Hun Lee 35
#41 Jae Joon Lee 35
#41 Ji Won Oh 35
#41 Sun Sung Kwon 35
#46 Chan Ho Jung 34
#46 Dong Ok Kim 34
#46 Dong Jun Shin 34
#49 Bo Ki Hong 33
#49 Hae Kyu Lim 33

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