Where does Glowforge Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glowforge Inc. ranks #7,414 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 Glowforge Inc. hold?

Glowforge Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Glowforge Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Glowforge Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Glowforge Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +343% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Glowforge Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 Glowforge 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

Glowforge Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Glowforge Inc. focus on?

Glowforge Inc.'s top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 32 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glowforge ranks #7,414 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 12 technology areas.

#7,414
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +343%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7414 · US Corporation #7,414 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,414/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ganymed Pharmaceutic…
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +343% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ganymed Pharmaceuticals GmbH (±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
Glowforge · this assignee

53
Guangzhou Haoyang · near

53
Mitsubishi Jidosha… · near

53
Delavan · near

53
Widex A/S · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glowforge's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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 Glowforge's grants concentrate

Glowforge Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Glowforge sits between GE Healthcare BioProcess R&D AB and Hochiki Corporation.

Glowforge's three-year grant acceleration

Glowforge Inc. shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

GE Healthcare Bio…

44
Goal Zero

44
Ganymed Pharmaceu…

44
Gemtek Technology

44
Grabango

44
Gradiant

44
Hawe Hydraulik SE

44
Hochiki

44
Glowforge ◀

44

What this shows Glowforge holds 44 patents at rank #7,415, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glowforge

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,415 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Guangzhou Haoyang Electronic Co., Ltd. 53 Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 53 Delavan Inc. 53 Widex A/S 53

Glowforge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Glowforge Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	2.3%
2019	6	13.6%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	2	4.5%
2022	13	29.5%
2023	5	11.4%
2024	8	18.2%
2025partial year	6	13.6%

Which technologies does Glowforge Inc. patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 32

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 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 14

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 11

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 10

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 10

B27M - Working OF Wood NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B27b - B27L; Manufacture OF Specific Wooden Articles 10

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

F16P - Safety Devices IN GENERAL; ; Safety Devices FOR Presses 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,414

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.7 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

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

Glowforge Inc.'s lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #7,414 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glowforge Inc. against GE Healthcare BioProcess R&D AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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

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

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