Where does Continuous Composites Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continuous Composites Inc. ranks #2,768 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 Continuous Composites Inc. hold?

Continuous Composites Inc. holds 139 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Continuous Composites Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Continuous Composites Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Continuous Composites Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continuous Composites Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +12800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Continuous Composites Inc.'s patents?

Continuous Composites Inc.'s patents average 18.0 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 Continuous Composites 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

Continuous Composites Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Continuous Composites Inc. focus on?

Continuous Composites 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 139 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 139 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Continuous ranks #2,768 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 139 patents across 27 technology areas.

#2,768
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +12800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2768 · US Corporation #2,768 · 139 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 139 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,768/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bar-Ilan University
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +12800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bar-Ilan University (±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
Callaway Golf · near

52
Continuous Composites · this assignee

52
Imperial Innovations · near

52
Teleflex Medical… · near

52
Varjo 0y · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continuous's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Continuous's grants concentrate

Continuous Composites Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2020 (36 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Continuous sits between Bar-Ilan University and Keihin Corporation.

Continuous's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Continuous Composites Inc. moved from 71 to 59 grants (0.83x 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 #1,714. See the growth leaderboard.

Bar-ilan Universi…

139
Bardy Diagnostics

139
Beijing Institute…

139
Cytiva Sweden AB

139
Creative Technolo…

139
Joby Aero

139
Japan Aerospace E…

139
Keihin

139
Continuous Compos… ◀

139

What this shows Continuous holds 139 patents at rank #2,769, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Continuous

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,769 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Teleflex Medical Incorporated 52 Varjo Technologies 0y 52 Imperial Innovations Limited 52 Callaway Golf Company 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Immunomedics, Inc. 18.0 avg Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC 18.0 avg Amgen Research (MUNICH) GMBH 18.0 avg Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd. 18.0 avg

Continuous's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Continuous Composites Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	0.7%
2020	36	25.9%
2021	34	24.5%
2022	19	13.7%
2023	21	15.1%
2024	19	13.7%
2025partial year	9	6.5%

Which technologies does Continuous Composites 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 139

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 139

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 95

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 48

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 42

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 32

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 18

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 11

C22C - Alloys 10

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 6

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,768

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.8 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

Continuous Composites Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continuous Composites 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 ), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #2,768 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continuous Composites Inc. against Bar-Ilan University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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