Where does Jabil Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Jabil Inc. ranks #1,855 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 Jabil Inc. hold?

Jabil Inc. holds 217 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 102 technology areas.

What is Jabil Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Jabil Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Jabil Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +372% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Jabil Inc.'s patents average 15.8 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 Jabil 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

Jabil Inc.

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

Jabil 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 70 patents. Grants appear in 102 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 217 granted patents across 102 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Jabil ranks #1,855 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 217 patents across 102 technology areas.

#1,855
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.1/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +372%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1855 · US Corporation #1,855 · 217 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 217 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,855/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huf Hülsbeck &…
CPC-WIDE B33Y · 102 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +372% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG (±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
Abbott Diabetes Care · near

66
Jabil · this assignee

66
National University… · near

66
Wisconsin Alumni… · near

66
Varian Medical Systems · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Jabil's Innovation Score is 66.1/100 (top 1% 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.

How Jabil's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Jabil Inc. received 151 grants versus 32 in 2015–2019 (+372% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 53 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 3. Lead class B33Y accounts for 32.3% of the portfolio across 102 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Suncast Technologies, LLC (#1,851) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (#1,859).

Jabil's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Jabil Inc. moved from 58 to 113 grants (1.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #224. See the growth leaderboard.

Suncast

218
Total Marketing S…

218
Unisys

218
Huf Hülsbeck & Fü…

217
Microvention

217
Newracom

217
Solarcity

217
Xi'an Jiaotong Un…

217
Jabil ◀

217

What this shows Jabil holds 217 patents at rank #1,855, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Jabil

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,855 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 66 National University OF Defense Technology 66 Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. 66 Varian Medical Systems, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

JNC Petrochemical Corporation 15.8 avg AVL List GMBH 15.8 avg University of Central Florida Research Foundation 15.8 avg Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO 15.8 avg

Jabil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Jabil Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	1.4%
2018	9	4.1%
2019	20	9.2%
2020	14	6.5%
2021	24	11.1%
2022	23	10.6%
2023	37	17.1%
2024	53	24.4%
2025partial year	34	15.7%

Which technologies does Jabil 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 70

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 66

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 37

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 31

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 21

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 21

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 21

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 19

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 16

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 13

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 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 11

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

Top 15 of 102 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,855

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.1 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

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

Jabil 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 ), 32.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #1,855 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Jabil Inc. against Suncast Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.1/100 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

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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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