Is Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing's recent grant velocity is -12% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing

Q: Where does Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing ranks #6,490 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing 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 PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 34 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, Technology ranks #6,490 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 34 technology areas.

#6,490
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6490 · Foreign Corporation #6,490 · 52 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,490/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sartorius Stedim…
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sartorius Stedim North America 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 Technology’s 41.5 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 13.7 pts (33%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 20.6 pts (50%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innate Pharma · near

42
Interaptix · near

42
Lensvector · near

42
Nissin Foods Holdings · near

42
Technology Research… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Technology's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Technology?

Each dot is one of Technology’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). Technology’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Technology's grants concentrate

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 82.7% 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 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Technology sits between Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. and Tanium Inc..

Technology's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing moved from 35 to 6 grants (0.17x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sartorius Stedim…

52
Sharp Life Scienc…

52
Sun Hydraulics

52
Sutro Biopharma

52
THE Gleason Works

52
Toyo Aluminium

52
Toyo Tanso

52
Tanium

52
Technology Resear… ◀

52

What this shows Technology holds 52 patents at rank #6,489, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Technology

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,489 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Technology, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Technology ranks #52 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. 42 Innate Pharma 42 Lensvector 42 Interaptix Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.1 here).

Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd. 10.1 avg Niagara Bottling, LLC 10.1 avg Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. 10.1 avg Nerviano Medical Sciences S.R.L. 10.1 avg

Technology's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	8	15.4%
2019	18	34.6%
2020	11	21.2%
2021	6	11.5%
2022	2	3.8%
2023	3	5.8%
2024	1	1.9%
2025partial year	3	5.8%

Which technologies does Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing 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 43

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 39

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 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 34

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 29

C22C - Alloys 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 2

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 2

Top 15 of 34 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

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing'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 ), 82.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #6,490 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing against Sartorius Stedim North America Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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

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.