Where does Icon Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Icon Technology, Inc. ranks #14,049 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 Icon Technology, Inc. hold?

Icon Technology, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Icon Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Icon Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Icon Technology, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Icon Technology, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Icon Technology, Inc.'s patents?

Icon Technology, Inc.'s patents average 12.1 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 Icon Technology, 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

Icon Technology, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Icon Technology, Inc. focus on?

Icon Technology, 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 19 patents, ranking #102 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Icon ranks #14,049 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 10 technology areas.

#14,049
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14049 · US Corporation #14,049 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,049/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Howe & Howe
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Howe & Howe Inc. (±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 Icon’s 49.1 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 10.7 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 11.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oxford Instruments… · near

49
Hitachi Maxell · near

49
Icon Technology · this assignee

49
Shoals Group · near

49
SymphonyAI Sensa · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Icon's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 Icon?

Each dot is one of Icon’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). Icon’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 12.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Icon's grants concentrate

Icon Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 90.5% 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 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Icon sits between Howe & Howe Inc. and Inno-tech Co., Ltd..

Icon's three-year grant acceleration

Icon Technology, Inc. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Howe & Howe

21
Human Incorporated

21
Husky Oil Operati…

21
Hydrow

21
Idis

21
IN Queue Innovati…

21
Ingeteam Power Te…

21
Inno-tech

21
Icon Technology ◀

21

What this shows Icon holds 21 patents at rank #14,046, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Icon

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,046 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Icon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Icon ranks #102 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Shoals Technologies Group, LLC 49 Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. 49 SymphonyAI Sensa LLC 49 Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited 49

Icon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Icon Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	4.8%
2021	2	9.5%
2022	3	14.3%
2023	7	33.3%
2024	4	19.0%
2025partial year	4	19.0%

Which technologies does Icon Technology, 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 19

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 17

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings 15

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

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 5

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 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

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Icon Technology, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Icon Technology, 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 ), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #14,049 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Icon Technology, Inc. against Howe & Howe Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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.