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B33Y 80/00

Products made by additive manufacturing

Introduced: January 2015

Classification Context

Section:
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Subclass:
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING

Filing statistics

IPC B33Y 80/00 belongs to the parent subclass B33Y, which recorded 144,289 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 545 in 2013 to 15,453 in 2023 (+2735%), peaking at 19,180 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B33 are HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (3,558 applications), GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) (1,721 applications) and SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (810 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B33, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 3,558
  2. GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,721
  3. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 810
  4. XEROX CORPORATION US 787
  5. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 746
  6. SIEMENS DE 679
  7. RICOH COMPANY 624
  8. XIAN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY 563
  9. HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 550
  10. SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 522