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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SLM Solutions Group AG ranks #7,929 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 SLM Solutions Group AG hold?

SLM Solutions Group AG holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is SLM Solutions Group AG's Innovation Score?

SLM Solutions Group AG has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SLM Solutions Group AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SLM Solutions Group AG's recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

SLM Solutions Group AG's patents average 14.8 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 SLM Solutions Group 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

SLM Solutions Group AG

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

SLM Solutions Group AG's top technology area is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder) with 41 patents, ranking #33 of 926 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 27 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: B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SLM ranks #7,929 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 27 technology areas.

#7,929
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7929 · Foreign Corporation #7,929 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,929/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sekisui Polymatech
CPC-FOCUS B22F · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sekisui Polymatech Co., Ltd. (±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 SLM’s 43.0 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 12.9 pts (30%) Velocity 2.9 pts (7%) Breadth 18.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
E2interactive · near

43
SLM Solutions Group · this assignee

43
Wafios Aktiengesells… · near

43
A L M T · near

43
AVerMedia · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SLM's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 SLM?

Each dot is one of SLM’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). SLM’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where SLM's grants concentrate

SLM Solutions Group AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, SLM sits between Sekisui Polymatech Co., Ltd. and Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc.

SLM's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SLM Solutions Group AG moved from 21 to 9 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sekisui Polymatech

41
Shenzhen Voxtech

41
Shya Hsin Packagi…

41
SK keyfoundry

41
Solidia

41
Southern Taiwan U…

41
Supersonic Imagine

41
Symmetry Medical…

41
SLM Solutions Gro… ◀

41

What this shows SLM holds 41 patents at rank #7,925, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SLM

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,925 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22F (Working Metallic Powder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SLM, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22F (Working Metallic Powder), SLM ranks #33 of 926 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

E2interactive, Inc. 43 Wafios Aktiengesellschaft 43 A.L.M.T. Corp. 43 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. 43

SLM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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SLM Solutions Group AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.4%
2016	1	2.4%
2017	1	2.4%
2018	8	19.5%
2019	5	12.2%
2020	9	22.0%
2021	7	17.1%
2022	3	7.3%
2023	6	14.6%

Which technologies does SLM Solutions Group AG patent most?

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 41

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 41

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 39

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 39

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 18

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 7

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

C22C - Alloys 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

Top 15 of 27 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

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

SLM Solutions Group AG's lead technology class is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22F
Ranked #7,929 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SLM Solutions Group AG against Sekisui Polymatech Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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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