Where does Desktop Metal, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Desktop Metal, Inc. ranks #3,252 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 Desktop Metal, Inc. hold?

Desktop Metal, Inc. holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Desktop Metal, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Desktop Metal, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.8 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Desktop Metal, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +320% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Desktop Metal, Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 Desktop Metal, 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

Desktop Metal, Inc.

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

Desktop Metal, 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 97 patents, ranking #22 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 37 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, Desktop ranks #3,252 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 37 technology areas.

#3,252
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.8/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +320%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3252 · US Corporation #3,252 · 115 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,252/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Catalyst Lifestyle
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +320% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Catalyst Lifestyle Limited (±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 Desktop’s 53.8 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 16.4 pts (30%) Velocity 7.1 pts (13%) Breadth 21.5 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Desktop Metal · this assignee

54
Federal-Mogul… · near

54
Leidos · near

54
University of… · near

54
Xyleco · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Desktop's Innovation Score is 53.8/100 (top 8% 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 Desktop?

Each dot is one of Desktop’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). Desktop’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Desktop's grants concentrate

Desktop Metal, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 84.3% 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 (19 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Desktop sits between Catalyst Lifestyle Limited and Hunter Engineering Company.

Desktop's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Desktop Metal, Inc. moved from 49 to 52 grants (1.06x 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 #1,034. See the growth leaderboard.

Catalyst Lifestyle

115
Cognitive Scale

115
Coherent Logix In…

115
Coinbase

115
Deutsches Krebsfo…

115
Dresser

115
Hisamitsu Pharmac…

115
Hunter Engineering

115
Desktop Metal ◀

115

What this shows Desktop holds 115 patents at rank #3,252, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Desktop

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,252 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Desktop, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Desktop ranks #22 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Leidos, Inc. 54 Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC 54 Xyleco, Inc. 54 University of Vermont and State Agricultural College 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

Flir Systems AB 14.7 avg ASM Technology Singapore PTE Ltd 14.7 avg Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen 14.7 avg Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. 14.7 avg

Desktop's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Desktop Metal, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	2.6%
2019	17	14.8%
2020	15	13.0%
2021	17	14.8%
2022	19	16.5%
2023	16	13.9%
2024	17	14.8%
2025partial year	11	9.6%

Which technologies does Desktop Metal, 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 97

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 89

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 86

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 71

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 25

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 23

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 17

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 12

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

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 11

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

C22C - Alloys 7

B24C - Abrasive OR Related Blasting With Particulate Material 7

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 6

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Desktop Metal, 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 ), 84.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #3,252 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Desktop Metal, Inc. against Catalyst Lifestyle Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.8/100 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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