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Nikon SLM Solutions Ag

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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, Nikon ranks #18,949 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,949
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.7/100)
14.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18949 · Foreign Corporation #18,949 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
  • MID-PACK #18,949/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH NexisVision
  • CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 11 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 49.7/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nexisvision, 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Nikon

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Nikon SLM Solutions Ag stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, SPAN-YRS, BOOK-RICH. Volume places it #18,949 of 50,000; Innovation Score 49.7/100 sits in the top 14% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Nexisvision, Inc. (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

Nikon SLM Solutions Ag has been granted 15 US utility patents between 2024 and 2025, placing Nikon SLM Solutions Ag at #18,949 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 11 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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 ). As a Foreign Corporation, Nikon SLM Solutions Ag is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Nikon sits between Nexisvision, Inc. (15 patents, rank #18,949) and Nortek Air Solutions, Llc (15 patents, rank #18,957) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 49.7/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Historical data spans 2024 through 2025, with 15 total grants over that period. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Nikon SLM Solutions Ag's 14.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 11 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Who files at Nikon's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Nikon holds 15 patents at rank #18,953, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Nikon

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,953 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Nikon'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 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). Below this entry. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Below this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). This entry sits in this band. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

6.577.588.5 20242025 8
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nikon SLM Solutions Ag patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2024 7 46.7%
2025partial year 8 53.3%

Which technologies does Nikon SLM Solutions Ag patent most?

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,949

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?
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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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

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.