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IPC Main Group
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

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