Where does MakerBot Industries, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MakerBot Industries, LLC ranks #3,433 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 MakerBot Industries, LLC hold?

MakerBot Industries, LLC holds 108 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is MakerBot Industries, LLC's Innovation Score?

MakerBot Industries, LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.6 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

MakerBot Industries, LLC's recent grant velocity is -60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

MakerBot Industries, LLC's patents average 13.9 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 MakerBot Industries, 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

MakerBot Industries, LLC

Q: What technology areas does MakerBot Industries, LLC focus on?

MakerBot Industries, 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 77 patents. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 108 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Makerbot ranks #3,433 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 108 patents across 21 technology areas.

#3,433
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.6/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3433 · US Corporation #3,433 · 108 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 108 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,433/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Essential Products
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Essential Products, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rovi · near

43
Rubbermaid Commercia… · near

43
MakerBot Industries · this assignee

43
Seabed Geosolutions… · near

43
Simbe Robotics · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Makerbot's Innovation Score is 42.6/100 (top 30% 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.

Where Makerbot's grants concentrate

MakerBot Industries, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 71.3% 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 2016 (32 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Makerbot sits between Essential Products, Inc. and The Heil Co..

Makerbot's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MakerBot Industries, LLC moved from 29 to 8 grants (0.28x 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 #3,022. See the growth leaderboard.

Essential Products

108
Framatome

108
Formlabs

108
GE OIL & GAS UK

108
Sram Deutschland

108
Stmicroelectronic…

108
Toppan

108
The Heil

108
Makerbot Industri… ◀

108

What this shows MakerBot holds 108 patents at rank #3,433, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MakerBot

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,433 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Seabed Geosolutions B.V. 43 Simbe Robotics, Inc. 43 Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC 43 Rovi Technologies Corporation 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

PlayNitride Inc. 13.9 avg SUN Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 13.9 avg Ruprecht - Karls - UNIVERSITÄT Heidelberg 13.9 avg Ossur Iceland EHF 13.9 avg

Makerbot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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MakerBot Industries, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	14.8%
2016	32	29.6%
2017	9	8.3%
2018	14	13.0%
2019	6	5.6%
2020	17	15.7%
2021	6	5.6%
2022	4	3.7%
2023	4	3.7%

Which technologies does MakerBot Industries, 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 77

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 73

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 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 17

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 8

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 5

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 3

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 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

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

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,433

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.6 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

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

MakerBot Industries, 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 ), 71.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #3,433 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MakerBot Industries, LLC against Essential Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.6/100 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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