Where does Orbital Composites, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbital Composites, Inc. ranks #32,764 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 Orbital Composites, Inc. hold?

Orbital Composites, Inc. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Orbital Composites, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Orbital Composites, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Orbital Composites, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbital Composites, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Orbital Composites, Inc.'s patents?

Orbital Composites, Inc.'s patents average 41.0 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 Orbital Composites, 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

Orbital Composites, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Orbital Composites, Inc. focus on?

Orbital Composites, 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 4 patents, ranking #410 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Orbital ranks #32,764 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 12 technology areas.

#32,764
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 41.0
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32764 · US Corporation #32,764 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,764/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Optimal Ventures
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 41.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Optimal Ventures, LLC (±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 Orbital’s 39.3 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 7.6 pts (19%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 12.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbital Composites · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbital's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% 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 Orbital?

Each dot is one of Orbital’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). Orbital’s own 41.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Orbital's grants concentrate

Orbital Composites, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Orbital sits between Optimal Ventures, LLC and Orgenesis Inc..

Orbital's three-year grant acceleration

Orbital Composites, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Optimal Ventures

8
Optimus Drugs Pri…

8
Optivolt Labs

8
Optofluidics

8
Orbray

8
Orchid Exchange

8
Orexigen Therapeu…

8
Orgenesis

8
Orbital Composites ◀

8

What this shows Orbital holds 8 patents at rank #32,758, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orbital

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,758 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Orbital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

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

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Orbital Composites, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	12.5%
2019	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Orbital Composites, 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 4

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

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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

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 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Orbital Composites, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbital Composites, 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 ), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #32,764 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbital Composites, Inc. against Optimal Ventures, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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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