KBA Recognized As Patent Leader

In the Wall Street Journal’s September 2009 update of The Patent Board’s Patent Scorecard for manufacturers of heavy industrial equipment, KBA ranked 13th among the top 50. The high ranking reflects the group’s consistent focus on innovation as a pioneer of press engineering for the past 192 years. KBA also was ranked 25th among the top 50 patent applicants in a list published in spring this year by the German Patent and Trademark Office. KBA had 191 published patents.