Where does Stratasys Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stratasys Ltd. ranks #936 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 Stratasys Ltd. hold?

Stratasys Ltd. holds 476 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Stratasys Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Stratasys Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 63.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stratasys Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stratasys Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +36% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Stratasys Ltd.'s patents?

Stratasys Ltd.'s patents average 16.0 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 Stratasys Ltd. 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

Stratasys Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Stratasys Ltd. focus on?

Stratasys Ltd.'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 430 patents, ranking #3 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 476 granted patents across 85 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, Stratasys ranks #936 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 476 patents across 85 technology areas.

#936
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.3/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R936 · Foreign Corporation #936 · 476 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 476 grants
TOP-DECILE #936/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caterpillar Paving…
CPC-WIDE B33Y · 85 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caterpillar Paving Products 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 Stratasys’s 63.3 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 21.3 pts (34%) Velocity 7.4 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rutgers the State… · near

63
CenturyLink… · near

63
Compagnie Generale… · near

63
KCI Licensing · near

63
Stratasys · this assignee

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stratasys's Innovation Score is 63.3/100 (top 2% 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 Stratasys?

Each dot is one of Stratasys’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). Stratasys’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 19.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Stratasys's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Stratasys Ltd. received 242 grants versus 178 in 2015–2019 (+36% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 60 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 22. Lead class B33Y accounts for 90.3% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: United States Postal Service (#932) and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (#940).

Stratasys's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stratasys Ltd. moved from 132 to 147 grants (1.11x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #933. See the growth leaderboard.

United States Pos…

477
Caterpillar Pavin…

476
Chicago Mercantil…

476
Nant Holdings IP

476
Stratasys ◀

476
Landmark Graphics

474
Memorial Sloan Ke…

473
Uatc

473
Trading Internati…

472

What this shows Stratasys holds 476 patents at rank #936, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stratasys

By rank, the assignees closest to #936 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stratasys, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Stratasys ranks #3 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

KCI Licensing, Inc. 63 CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC 63 Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin 63 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

DSM IP Assets B.V. 16.0 avg Thomson Licensing 16.0 avg Stichting Imec Nederland 16.0 avg Tendyron Corporation 16.0 avg

Stratasys's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Stratasys Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	7.4%
2016	22	4.6%
2017	41	8.6%
2018	43	9.0%
2019	37	7.8%
2020	36	7.6%
2021	59	12.4%
2022	39	8.2%
2023	48	10.1%
2024	60	12.6%
2025partial year	56	11.8%

Which technologies does Stratasys Ltd. 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 430

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 424

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 146

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 51

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 51

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 42

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 41

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

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 39

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 37

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 35

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 34

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 33

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 29

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 29

Top 15 of 85 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

Stratasys Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stratasys Ltd.'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 ), 90.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #936 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stratasys Ltd. against United States Postal Service, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.3/100 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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