Where does EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems ranks #3,323 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 EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems hold?

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems holds 112 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems's Innovation Score?

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems has an Innovation Score of 57.7 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems'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 EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems's patents?

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems's patents average 14.9 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 EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems 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 Foreign Corporation

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems

Q: What technology areas does EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems focus on?

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems'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 109 patents, ranking #18 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 112 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, EOS ranks #3,323 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 112 patents across 48 technology areas.

#3,323
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.7/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +320%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3323 · Foreign Corporation #3,323 · 112 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 112 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,323/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cambridge Display…
CPC-WIDE B33Y · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +320% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cambridge Display Technology 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 EOS’s 57.7 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 16.3 pts (28%) Velocity 7.9 pts (14%) Breadth 24.5 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amosense · near

58
Kymeta · near

58
Weidmüller Interface… · near

58
EOS Electro Optical… · this assignee

58
Overhead Door · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows EOS's Innovation Score is 57.7/100 (top 5% 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 EOS?

Each dot is one of EOS’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). EOS’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where EOS's grants concentrate

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 97.3% 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 2021 (20 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, EOS sits between China Unionpay Co., Ltd. and International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.

EOS's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems moved from 42 to 50 grants (1.19x 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 #799. See the growth leaderboard.

China Unionpay

112
Chroma ATE

112
Cambridge Display…

112
Chr Hansen A/S

112
Fred Hutchinson C…

112
Global Trademarks

112
Inspire Medical S…

112
International Eng…

112
EOS Electro Optic… ◀

112

What this shows EOS holds 112 patents at rank #3,323, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near EOS

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,323 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for EOS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), EOS ranks #18 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG and PH 58 Kymeta Corporation 58 Overhead Door Corporation 58 Amosense Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa' Cooperativa 14.9 avg Toyota Motor Europe 14.9 avg HUBER+SUHNER AG 14.9 avg Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg

EOS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.8%
2016	1	0.9%
2017	4	3.6%
2018	5	4.5%
2019	8	7.1%
2020	14	12.5%
2021	20	17.9%
2022	15	13.4%
2023	19	17.0%
2024	16	14.3%
2025partial year	8	7.1%

Which technologies does EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems 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 109

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 103

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 88

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 87

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 18

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 18

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 17

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

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 5

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 4

Top 15 of 48 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

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems'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 ), 97.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #3,323 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems against China Unionpay Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.7/100 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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