Where does Nikon SLM Solutions AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nikon SLM Solutions AG ranks #18,949 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 Nikon SLM Solutions AG hold?

Nikon SLM Solutions AG holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Nikon SLM Solutions AG's Innovation Score?

Nikon SLM Solutions AG has an Innovation Score of 49.7 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 Nikon SLM Solutions AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nikon SLM Solutions AG.

What does claim depth mean for Nikon SLM Solutions AG's patents?

Nikon SLM Solutions AG's patents average 14.1 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 Nikon SLM Solutions AG 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 Foreign Corporation

Nikon SLM Solutions AG

Q: What technology areas does Nikon SLM Solutions AG focus on?

Nikon SLM Solutions AG'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 15 patents, ranking #122 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,949
of 49,997 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 #18,949/49,997
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.

How Nikon’s 49.7 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 9.6 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 11.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nikon SLM Solutions · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nikon's Innovation Score is 49.7/100 (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 Nikon?

Each dot is one of Nikon’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). Nikon’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nikon's grants concentrate

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 ). By volume, Nikon sits between NexisVision, Inc. and Nortek Air Solutions, LLC.

Nikon's three-year grant acceleration

Nikon SLM Solutions AG shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Nexisvision

15
Nice-pak Products

15
Nickel & Suede

15
Nifty Home Produc…

15
Ningbo Litesun El…

15
Ningbo Pureza Tec…

15
Nitta Haas

15
Nortek Air Soluti…

15
Nikon SLM Solutio… ◀

15

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.

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 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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?

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 15

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 15

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 15

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 3

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 3

B01D - Separation 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Nikon SLM Solutions AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nikon SLM Solutions AG'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 ), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #18,949 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nikon SLM Solutions AG against NexisVision, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.7/100 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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