Where does MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC ranks #17,871 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 MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC hold?

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's Innovation Score?

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's patents?

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's patents average 16.3 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 MacDermid Graphics Solutions, 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

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC

Q: What technology areas does MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC focus on?

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's top technology area is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;) with 16 patents, ranking #99 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Macdermid ranks #17,871 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 17 technology areas.

#17,871
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17871 · US Corporation #17,871 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,871/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Macorva
CPC-FOCUS G03F · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Macorva 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 Macdermid’s 39.1 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 9.8 pts (25%) Velocity 5.0 pts (13%) Breadth 14.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MacDermid Graphics… · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Macdermid's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Macdermid?

Each dot is one of Macdermid’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). Macdermid’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Macdermid's grants concentrate

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Macdermid sits between Moooi B.V. and Masco Canada Limited.

Macdermid's three-year grant acceleration

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC shows 6 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.

Moooi B V

16
MSA Europe

16
Multilift

16
Multiphy

16
Macorva

16
Mad Dogg Athletics

16
Maintek Computer…

16
Masco Canada

16
Macdermid Graphic… ◀

16

What this shows MacDermid holds 16 patents at rank #17,893, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MacDermid

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,893 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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

Macdermid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	12.5%
2019	5	31.3%
2020	2	12.5%
2021	1	6.3%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	3	18.8%
2024	1	6.3%

Which technologies does MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC patent most?

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 16

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 7

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 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 1

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 1

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 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

Top 15 of 17 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

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC's lead technology class is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #17,871 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MacDermid Graphics Solutions, LLC against Moooi B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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

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