Where does IO Tech Group Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IO Tech Group Ltd. ranks #7,150 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 IO Tech Group Ltd. hold?

IO Tech Group Ltd. holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is IO Tech Group Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

IO Tech Group Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is IO Tech Group Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IO Tech Group Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +2000% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for IO Tech Group Ltd.'s patents?

IO Tech Group Ltd.'s patents average 14.5 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 IO Tech Group Ltd. 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

IO Tech Group Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does IO Tech Group Ltd. focus on?

IO Tech Group Ltd.'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, ranking #64 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 29 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: 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, IO ranks #7,150 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,150
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: +2000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7150 · Foreign Corporation #7,150 · 46 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,150/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harro Hoefliger…
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 29 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2000% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen 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.

How IO’s 61.0 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 13.3 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 19.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carbon Technology… · near

61
Fidlock · near

61
IO Tech Group · this assignee

61
Sealed Air (US) · near

61
Mitsui Chemicals · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IO's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (top 3% 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 IO?

Each dot is one of IO’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). IO’s own 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where IO's grants concentrate

IO Tech Group Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 71.7% 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 2023 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, IO sits between Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH and KMA Concepts Limited.

IO's three-year grant acceleration

IO Tech Group Ltd. shows 34 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Harro Hoefliger V…

46
Hay Aps

46
Hisense Laser Dis…

46
I-tek Metal MFG

46
J Wagner

46
Kepco Engineering…

46
Keysight Singapor…

46
KMA Concepts

46
IO Tech Group ◀

46

What this shows IO holds 46 patents at rank #7,149, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IO

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,149 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IO, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), IO ranks #64 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Sealed Air Corporation (US) 61 Carbon Technology Holdings, LLC 61 Fidlock GMBH 61 Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. 61

IO's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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IO Tech Group Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	4.3%
2020	2	4.3%
2021	6	13.0%
2022	11	23.9%
2023	12	26.1%
2024	11	23.9%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does IO Tech Group Ltd. 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 31

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

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 14

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 11

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 10

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

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 7

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 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

Top 15 of 29 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

IO Tech Group Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IO Tech Group Ltd.'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 ), 71.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #7,150 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IO Tech Group Ltd. against Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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.