Where does Impossible Objects, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Impossible Objects, Inc. ranks #9,054 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Impossible Objects, Inc. hold?

Impossible Objects, Inc. holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Impossible Objects, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Impossible Objects, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Impossible Objects, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Impossible Objects, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +109% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Impossible Objects, Inc.'s patents?

Impossible Objects, Inc.'s patents average 14.1 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 Impossible Objects, 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

Impossible Objects, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Impossible Objects, Inc. focus on?

Impossible Objects, 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 33 patents. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Impossible ranks #9,054 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 21 technology areas.

#9,054
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +109%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9054 · US Corporation #9,054 · 35 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,054/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH INNOVIA FILMS
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +109% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Innovia Films Ltd. (±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
Clean Power Research… · near

47
Electro Industries/g… · near

47
Impossible Objects · this assignee

47
Seegene · near

47
Slayback Pharma · near

47
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Impossible Objects, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,054 of 50,000; Innovation Score 47.4/100 sits in the top 19% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Innovia Films Ltd. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Impossible Objects, Inc. has been granted 35 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Impossible Objects, Inc. at #9,054 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 21 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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 ). As a US Corporation, Impossible Objects, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Impossible sits between Innovia Films Ltd. (35 patents, rank #9,052) and Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. (35 patents, rank #9,060) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 47.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 23 grants, compared with 11 in the 2015–2019 window, a +109% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Impossible Objects, Inc.'s 14.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 21 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Innovia Films

35
Inoac

35
Institute OF Semi…

35
Invidi

35
Invention And Col…

35
JCM American

35
Jfrog

35
Joulwatt Technolo…

35
Impossible Objects ◀

35

What this shows Impossible holds 35 patents at rank #9,056, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Impossible

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,056 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Slayback Pharma Llc 47 Seegene, Inc. 47 Electro Industries/gauge Tech 47 Clean Power Research, L.l.c. 47

Impossible's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Impossible Objects, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	5.7%
2017	3	8.6%
2018	1	2.9%
2019	5	14.3%
2020	2	5.7%
2021	4	11.4%
2022	3	8.6%
2023	8	22.9%
2024	6	17.1%
2025partial year	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Impossible Objects, 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 33

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 33

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 14

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 12

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 11

B22F - WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER ; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER 7

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY 6

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 6

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 6

C22C - ALLOYS 5

B65H - HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES 4

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 2

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 2

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 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 1

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,054

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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