Where does Freemelt AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Freemelt AB ranks #35,370 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 Freemelt AB hold?

Freemelt AB holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Freemelt AB's Innovation Score?

Freemelt AB has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Freemelt AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Freemelt AB.

What does claim depth mean for Freemelt AB's patents?

Freemelt AB's patents average 13.6 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 Freemelt AB 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

Freemelt AB

Q: What technology areas does Freemelt AB focus on?

Freemelt AB'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 6 patents, ranking #277 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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, Freemelt ranks #35,370 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 9 technology areas.

#35,370
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35370 · Foreign Corporation #35,370 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,370/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Foundation Productions
CPC-NARROW B33Y · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Foundation Productions, LLC (±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 Freemelt’s 45.9 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 7.2 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 10.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freemelt AB · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Freemelt's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Freemelt?

Each dot is one of Freemelt’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). Freemelt’s own 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freemelt's grants concentrate

Freemelt AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 85.7% 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 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Freemelt sits between Foundation Productions, LLC and Fuel Saving Technologies, Inc..

Freemelt's three-year grant acceleration

Freemelt AB shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Foundation Produc…

7
Fournitures Hospi…

7
Frantz Design Inc…

7
Fraunhofer-gesels…

7
Friwo Gerätebau

7
FTR Systems

7
FU JEN Catholic U…

7
Fuel Saving

7
Freemelt AB ◀

7

What this shows Freemelt holds 7 patents at rank #35,320, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Freemelt

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,320 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Freemelt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Freemelt AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	3	42.9%
2023	2	28.6%
2024	1	14.3%
2025partial year	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Freemelt AB 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 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

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

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 5

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

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 1

C25F - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Removal OF Materials From OBJECTS; Apparatus Therefor 1

C22C - Alloys 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Freemelt AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Freemelt AB'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 ), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #35,370 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Freemelt AB against Foundation Productions, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.