Where does Carbon, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carbon, Inc. ranks #1,975 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 Carbon, Inc. hold?

Carbon, Inc. holds 203 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Carbon, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Carbon, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carbon, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carbon, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +522% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carbon, Inc.'s patents?

Carbon, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Carbon, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Carbon, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Carbon, Inc. focus on?

Carbon, Inc.'s top technology area is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering) with 197 patents. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 203 granted patents across 49 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: B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carbon ranks #1,975 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 203 patents across 49 technology areas.

#1,975
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +522%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1975 · US Corporation #1,975 · 203 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 203 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,975/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert Einstein…
CPC-WIDE B33Y · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +522% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avaya Management · near

64
Broadcom · near

64
Carbon · this assignee

64
Imec VZW · near

64
Nissan Chemical · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carbon's Innovation Score is 63.6/100 (top 2% 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.

Where Carbon's grants concentrate

Carbon, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 97% of grants classified under B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (48 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Carbon sits between SAF-Holland, Inc. and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Carbon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Carbon, Inc. moved from 79 to 105 grants (1.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #609. See the growth leaderboard.

Saf-holland

204
The Noco

204
Watlow Electric M…

204
Albert Einstein C…

203
Doskocil Manufact…

203
Tridonic & KG

203
University of Not…

203
Virginia Commonwe…

203
Carbon ◀

203

What this shows Carbon holds 203 patents at rank #1,975, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carbon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,975 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carbon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Avaya Management L.P. 64 Broadcom Corporation 64 Nissan Chemical Corporation 64 Imec VZW 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Verizon Media Inc. 19.3 avg Amkor Technology, Inc. 19.3 avg BAIDU.COM Times Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. 19.3 avg Automation Anywhere, Inc. 19.3 avg

Carbon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Carbon, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	1.0%
2018	9	4.4%
2019	16	7.9%
2020	30	14.8%
2021	33	16.3%
2022	48	23.6%
2023	30	14.8%
2024	27	13.3%
2025partial year	8	3.9%

Which technologies does Carbon, Inc. patent most?

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 197

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 194

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 104

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 50

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 45

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 44

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 41

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 40

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 31

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 29

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 27

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 18

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 12

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 11

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 9

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,975

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Carbon, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carbon, Inc.'s lead technology class is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ), 97% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #1,975 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carbon, Inc. against SAF-Holland, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.6/100 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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