Where does Nexa3D Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nexa3D Inc. ranks #8,263 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 Nexa3D Inc. hold?

Nexa3D Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Nexa3D Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nexa3D Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nexa3D Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nexa3D Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1650% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nexa3D Inc.'s patents?

Nexa3D Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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 Nexa3D 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

Nexa3D Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nexa3D Inc. focus on?

Nexa3D 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 32 patents, ranking #70 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Nexa3d ranks #8,263 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 13 technology areas.

#8,263
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +1650%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8263 · US Corporation #8,263 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,263/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neovasc Tiara
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1650% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neovasc Tiara 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 Nexa3d’s 49.6 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 12.7 pts (26%) Velocity 18.0 pts (36%) Breadth 12.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D · near

50
D&M Holdings · near

50
Eckart · near

50
Haver & Boecker OHG · near

50
Nexa3D · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nexa3d's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Nexa3d?

Each dot is one of Nexa3d’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). Nexa3d’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Nexa3d vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Nexa3d's grants concentrate

Nexa3D Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 82.1% 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 2019. By volume, Nexa3d sits between Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd. and Ovata B.V..

Nexa3d's three-year grant acceleration

Nexa3D Inc. shows 27 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Nippon Piston Ring

39
Nittoh

39
Novadelta—COMÉRCI…

39
Neovasc Tiara

39
Nuwave

39
Oxford Instrument…

39
Oklahoma Medical…

39
Ovata B V

39
Nexa3d ◀

39

What this shows Nexa3D holds 39 patents at rank #8,265, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nexa3D

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,265 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Nexa3D's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nexa3D, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Nexa3D ranks #70 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Haver & Boecker OHG 50 Eckart GmbH 50 D&M Holdings Inc. 50 Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited 50

Nexa3d's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nexa3D Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	5.1%
2020	2	5.1%
2021	6	15.4%
2022	7	17.9%
2023	12	30.8%
2024	8	20.5%
2025partial year	2	5.1%

Which technologies does Nexa3D 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 32

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 32

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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

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 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 1

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 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Nexa3D Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nexa3D 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 ), 82.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #8,263 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nexa3D Inc. against Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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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