Where does Universities Space Research Association rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universities Space Research Association ranks #27,728 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 Universities Space Research Association hold?

Universities Space Research Association holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Universities Space Research Association's Innovation Score?

Universities Space Research Association has an Innovation Score of 47.7 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universities Space Research Association's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Universities Space Research Association.

What does claim depth mean for Universities Space Research Association's patents?

Universities Space Research Association's patents average 11.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Universities Space Research Association

Q: What technology areas does Universities Space Research Association focus on?

Universities Space Research Association'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 5 patents, ranking #333 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Universities Space Research Association 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 - 10 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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, Universities ranks #27,728 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 12 technology areas.

#27,728
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.7/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27728 · US Corporation #27,728 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,728/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UniqueSoft
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UniqueSoft, 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 Universities’s 47.7 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 8.3 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 12.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caamtech · near

48
ROVl Guides · near

48
Flexiv · near

48
PPC Broadband Fiber · near

48
Universities Space… · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universities's Innovation Score is 47.7/100 (top 18% 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 Universities?

Each dot is one of Universities’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). Universities’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Universities's grants concentrate

Universities Space Research Association 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 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Universities sits between UniqueSoft, LLC and Universität Regensburg.

Universities's three-year grant acceleration

Universities Space Research Association shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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What this shows Universities holds 10 patents at rank #27,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universities

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Universities, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Universities ranks #333 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

PPC Broadband Fiber Ltd. 48 Flexiv Ltd. 48 Caamtech, Inc. 48 ROVl Guides, Inc. 48

Universities's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

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Universities Space Research Association patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	10.0%
2021	1	10.0%
2022	3	30.0%
2023	3	30.0%
2024	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Universities Space Research Association 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 5

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

H01C - Resistors 2

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 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04B - Transmission 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

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Universities Space Research Association'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 #27,728 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universities Space Research Association against UniqueSoft, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.7/100 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

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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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