Where does Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC ranks #28,344 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 Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC hold?

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's Innovation Score?

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC has an Innovation Score of 36.5 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's patents?

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's patents average 18.9 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 Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC 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

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC focus on?

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC'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 5 patents, ranking #333 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Carl ranks #28,344 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 14 technology areas.

#28,344
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.5/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28344 · US Corporation #28,344 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,344/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carbofix Orthopedics
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carbofix Orthopedics Ltd. (±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 Carl’s 36.5 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 8.0 pts (22%) Velocity 4.0 pts (11%) Breadth 13.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Carl's Innovation Score is 36.5/100 (top 46% 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 Carl?

Each dot is one of Carl’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). Carl’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Carl's grants concentrate

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 55.6% 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 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Carl sits between Carbofix Orthopedics Ltd. and Casa Systems, Inc..

Carl's three-year grant acceleration

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Carbofix Orthoped…

9
Cardiosolutions

9
Cardurion Pharmac…

9
Carl Walther

9
Carl Zeiss Spectr…

9
Carlsberg A/S

9
Carrot

9
Casa Systems

9
Carl Zeiss Indust… ◀

9

What this shows Carl holds 9 patents at rank #28,427, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carl

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,427 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Carl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	11.1%
2019	2	22.2%
2020	2	22.2%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%
2023	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC 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 5

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 5

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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC'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 ), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #28,344 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC against Carbofix Orthopedics Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.5/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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