Where does Voxeljet AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Voxeljet AG ranks #4,446 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 Voxeljet AG hold?

Voxeljet AG holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Voxeljet AG's Innovation Score?

Voxeljet AG has an Innovation Score of 50.8 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Voxeljet AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Voxeljet AG's recent grant velocity is -7% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Voxeljet AG's patents?

Voxeljet AG's patents average 20.6 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 Voxeljet 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

Voxeljet AG

Q: What technology areas does Voxeljet AG focus on?

Voxeljet AG's top technology area is 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) with 79 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 27 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Voxeljet ranks #4,446 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 27 technology areas.

#4,446
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4446 · Foreign Corporation #4,446 · 80 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,446/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tenacious Holdings
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tenacious Holdings, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Saudi Aramco · near

51
Schneider & KG · near

51
Seiren · near

51
Riverhawk · near

51
Voxeljet · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Voxeljet's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (top 12% 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.

Where Voxeljet's grants concentrate

Voxeljet AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 98.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (13 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Voxeljet sits between Tenacious Holdings, Inc. and A123 Systems LLC.

Voxeljet's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Voxeljet AG moved from 27 to 20 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Tenacious Holdings

80
Tigo Energy

80
UniversitÉ Paris-…

80
USG Interiors

80
Vacuumschmelze &…

80
Waseda University

80
thyssenkrupp Elev…

80
Voxeljet ◀

80
A123 Systems

79

What this shows Voxeljet holds 80 patents at rank #4,444, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Voxeljet

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,444 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Voxeljet, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Riverhawk Company 51 Seiren Co., Ltd. 51 Saudi Aramco Technologies Company 51 Schneider GmbH & Co. KG 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

Content Square SAS 20.6 avg CrossBar, Inc. 20.6 avg Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc. 20.6 avg Indigo Ag, Inc. 20.6 avg

Voxeljet's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Voxeljet AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	5.0%
2016	8	10.0%
2017	7	8.8%
2018	13	16.3%
2019	9	11.3%
2020	6	7.5%
2021	12	15.0%
2022	6	7.5%
2023	7	8.8%
2024	7	8.8%
2025partial year	1	1.3%

Which technologies does Voxeljet AG patent most?

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 79

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 73

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 38

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

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 32

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 20

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

B22C - Foundry Moulding 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

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 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,446

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Voxeljet AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Voxeljet AG's lead technology class is 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), 98.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #4,446 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Voxeljet AG against Tenacious Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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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