Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
5 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to KKR & Co. Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
5
5 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
6
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its holding company, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Engines, pumps, turbines1
Computer technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
KKR IP LLC its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name KKR & Co. Inc.
2 publishedKOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedForethought Life Insurance Company a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedKKR IP LLC its holding company
named as the applicant on its applications, in US; a holding company under the name KKR & Co. Inc.
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 5, 2024 | 12,135,934 | Methods and systems for dynamic report generation | Computer technology | KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. |
| May 16, 2023 | 11,649,805 | Modular wind turbine including wind directing features, systems, and methods of use thereof | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC |
| May 3, 2016 | 9,328,715 | Modular wind turbine having a rotating feature and method of use thereof | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC |
| Oct 30, 2012 | 8,299,640 | Modular wind turbine, multi-turbine wind turbine, wind turbine computer system, and method of use thereof | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC |
| Oct 23, 1990 | 4,964,656 | Telephone marketing device | Control | Forethought Life Insurance Company |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 21, 2023 | 2023/0409819 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC REPORT GENERATION | Computer technology | KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. · patent 12,135,934 granted from it |
| Nov 23, 2023 | 2023/0377043 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INVESTMENT SCORING AND RANKING | Computer technology | KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. |
| Nov 23, 2023 | 2023/0376616 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA ACCESS MANAGEMENT AND DATA ENTITLEMENTS INTEGRATION | Computer technology | KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. |
| Mar 3, 2022 | 2022/0065225 | MODULAR WIND TURBINE INCLUDING WIND DIRECTING FEATURES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC · patent 11,649,805 granted from it |
| Mar 7, 2013 | 2013/0058792 | MODULAR WIND TURBINE HAVING A ROTATING FEATURE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC · patent 9,328,715 granted from it |
| Jan 8, 2009 | 2009/0008939 | MODULAR WIND TURBINE, MULTI-TURBINE WIND TURBINE, WIND TURBINE COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | Engines, pumps, turbines | KKR IP LLC · patent 8,299,640 granted from it |
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.