Where does Inkbit, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inkbit, LLC ranks #9,796 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 Inkbit, LLC hold?

Inkbit, LLC holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Inkbit, LLC's Innovation Score?

Inkbit, LLC has an Innovation Score of 50.7 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Inkbit, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Inkbit, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Inkbit, LLC's patents?

Inkbit, LLC's patents average 19.5 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 Inkbit, LLC 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

Inkbit, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Inkbit, LLC focus on?

Inkbit, LLC'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 30 patents, ranking #74 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 25 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, Inkbit ranks #9,796 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 25 technology areas.

#9,796
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.7/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9796 · US Corporation #9,796 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,796/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH InnerOptic Technology
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: InnerOptic Technology, 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 Inkbit’s 50.7 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 12.1 pts (24%) Velocity 9.2 pts (18%) Breadth 17.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Inkbit · this assignee

51
Instabase · near

51
Taipei Veterans… · near

51
Zhuhai Access… · near

51
THE University OF… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Inkbit's Innovation Score is 50.7/100 (top 13% 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 Inkbit?

Each dot is one of Inkbit’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). Inkbit’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Inkbit's grants concentrate

Inkbit, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 93.8% 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 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2020. By volume, Inkbit sits between Institut Pasteur DE Lille and Jvis-usa, LLC.

Inkbit's three-year grant acceleration

Inkbit, LLC shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Institut Pasteur…

32
Inventure Labs

32
IPL

32
ISM Saddles

32
Inneroptic Techno…

32
Iris International

32
J-devices

32
Jvis-usa

32
Inkbit ◀

32

What this shows Inkbit holds 32 patents at rank #9,802, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inkbit

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,802 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Inkbit, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Inkbit ranks #74 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Zhuhai Access Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 51 Taipei Veterans General Hospital 51 Instabase, Inc. 51 THE University OF Electro-communications 51

Inkbit's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Inkbit, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	3	9.4%
2021	10	31.3%
2022	5	15.6%
2023	8	25.0%
2024	5	15.6%
2025partial year	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Inkbit, LLC 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 30

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 30

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 8

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 8

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Inkbit, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inkbit, LLC'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 ), 93.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #9,796 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inkbit, LLC against Institut Pasteur DE Lille, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.7/100 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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