Where does VulcanForms Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), VulcanForms Inc. ranks #14,376 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 VulcanForms Inc. hold?

VulcanForms Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is VulcanForms Inc.'s Innovation Score?

VulcanForms Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is VulcanForms Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for VulcanForms Inc..

What does claim depth mean for VulcanForms Inc.'s patents?

VulcanForms Inc.'s patents average 28.8 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 VulcanForms Inc. 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 US Corporation

VulcanForms Inc.

Q: What technology areas does VulcanForms Inc. focus on?

VulcanForms Inc.'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 21 patents, ranking #90 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Vulcanforms ranks #14,376 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 9 technology areas.

#14,376
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 28.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14376 · US Corporation #14,376 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,376/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Valeo Autosystemy…
CPC-NARROW B33Y · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Valeo Autosystemy Sp. z o.o. (±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 Vulcanforms’s 56.3 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 10.7 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 10.6 pts (19%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
VulcanForms · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vulcanforms's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 Vulcanforms?

Each dot is one of Vulcanforms’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). Vulcanforms’s own 28.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vulcanforms's grants concentrate

VulcanForms Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Vulcanforms sits between Valeo Autosystemy Sp. z o.o. and Wonders Holding BV.

Vulcanforms's three-year grant acceleration

VulcanForms Inc. shows 11 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.

Valeo Autosystemy…

21
Vetnos

21
Videx

21
Viscardia

21
Westlake Royal Bu…

21
William Beaumont…

21
WKI Holding

21
Wonders Holding BV

21
Vulcanforms ◀

21

What this shows VulcanForms holds 21 patents at rank #14,374, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near VulcanForms

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,374 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Vulcanforms's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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VulcanForms Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	4.8%
2021	1	4.8%
2022	2	9.5%
2023	4	19.0%
2024	5	23.8%
2025partial year	8	38.1%

Which technologies does VulcanForms Inc. 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 21

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 21

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 19

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 18

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 15

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

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

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Top 9 of 9 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

VulcanForms Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

VulcanForms Inc.'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 ), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #14,376 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare VulcanForms Inc. against Valeo Autosystemy Sp. z o.o., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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.